How Inspector Is An Unconventional Detective

Question 1

Ts1: Instead of questioning for dates and facts like a conventional detective, the Inspector attempts to promote a message of social and moral responsibility for others.

Answer 1

‘Its better to ask for the Earth than to take it’
‘Public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges’
‘We’ll have to share our guilt’
‘A chain of events’

Question 2

Ts2: the inspector challenges the Birlings prejudice, complacency and hypocrisy which is unusual for a detective.

Answer 2

‘Your daughter isn’t living on the moon’
‘Lonely, half-starved, desperate’
‘Used her as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person’
‘You slammed the door in her face’

Question 3

Ts3: the inspector projects a socialist view onto the Birlings which a real police inspector wouldn’t do, acting as a mouthpiece for Priestley’s socialist views.

Answer 3

‘We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other…’
‘Fire and blood and anguish’
‘Young ones… more impressionable’

Question 4

Topic sentences

Answer 4

Ts1: doesn’t ask for dates and facts, tries to promote message of social and moral responsibility for others.
Ts2: challenges the Birlings complacency, hypocrisy and prejudice which is unusual for a detective.
Ts3: projects a socialist view on B’s, which a police inspector wouldn’t do, acting as a mouthpiece for Priestley’s political views.

Question 5

Quotes:

Answer 5

Same as ‘Inspector’ one

Question 6

Ts4: he acts as a catalyst, changing he characters relationships with each other

Answer 6

‘Your daughter isn’t living on the moon’