Form: Very Important

Question 1

What is the form !!

Answer 1

It’s a play
The people on stage are characters and those watching it are the audience

Question 2

How any acts are in inspector calls ?

Answer 2

3

Question 3

How is a play different from a novel ?

Answer 3

When you read a novel is a solitary endeavor where you read it on your own
However a play is experiencing in a collective manner- this could be a deliberate decision by priestly to represent social responsible and society as a collective through the use of the form

Question 4

What is the first significant point of the choice to make it a play ?

Answer 4

• the audience are not in control of the narrative unlike a book where you can revise certain lines of dialogue
• the audience is captive to the play
• the character exit and enter the stage however the audience watched the whole event unfold
  Why ?
  Priestly does this to challenge the audience with the message of the play refusing to give them rest
  This is because priestly wants to give us an unrelenting enlightenment on the ideas of social responsibility

Question 5

What did Priestly use the form of a play ?

Answer 5

Drama refuses as to allow the audience to experience the text in isolation and joins them together collectively
It’s the form itself that forces a collective response and the lack of individualism
This then ties in nicely with the texts main idea of social responsibility