Edna

Question 1

working class

Answer 1

edna is the only working class character who is shown on stage

Question 2

edna represents the mistreatment of the working class

Question 3

why is it significant that edna shows the inspector in to the dinning room?

Answer 3

“an inspectors called” -closest line in play to the title of book
Significant as the inspector is about to challenge values and beliefs or birling and gerald family

Question 4

what’s significant of edna turing on the lights?

Answer 4

“pink and intimate” - optimistic rose finite glasses which the birlings view their middle class privellage
to
“brighter and harder” - a spotlight of interrogation to illuminate the truth

Question 5

what is significant of edna showing inspector to the room and changing the light

Answer 5

priestley could be suggesting that it will be the working class who will bring the truth to the middle and upper classes for example that’s how priestley uses Eva to make them face the true concequences of their actions

Question 6

How does birling talk to edna

Answer 6

“show him in here”-
“give us more light”-
bluntly short and no politeness in way he speaks to edna and the clear imperatives show birling expects orders to be followed instantly (highlights pressure working class has in unfair conditions

Question 7

what does edna do on stage

Answer 7

serve port, food and open door. edna is told to wait up which shows middle class intrude her life showing they see her as an employee and don’t care about her well being. shows mistreatment of working class

Question 8

no one speaks for edna

Answer 8

symbolic of the lack of agency that the working poor had