An Inspector Calls stage directions Flashcards
How is audience interest sustained?
Through progressive revelations and desire to know who is responsible
How is audience suspense heightened?
They are left at tenterhooks at end of each act as well as climaxes within act.
What does Inspector do?
Inspectors apparent omniscience drives each character to confession.
Authur in SD
“Rather portentous”
Sybil in SD
“Rather cold”
Sheila in SD
“very pleased with life”
Eric in SD
“Half shy, half assertive”
Gerald in SD
“too manly to be dandy” “easily well bred, young man about town”
Audience unease
Ironic reference to impossibility of war and titanic unsinkable then “a man has to mind his own business, himself”. Doorbell stops this.
Room setting
“lighting is pink and intimate. inspector arrives it is brighter and harder”
