Inspector calls Flashcards
What technique does Priestley use when Birling says that the Titanic is ‘unsinkable’, but the audience knows it sank?
Dramatic Irony to show how we should not listen to Birling
What quote said by the inspector try’s to make the Birling family receive a bit of responsibility?
“Each of you helped to kill her.”
Mr Birling saw Eva Smith as…
Cheap labour
What quotes shows Mr Birling being dismissive about the hundreds of women working in his factory?
“We were paying the usual rates and if they didn’t like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else”
Gerald saw Eva as…
“Young and fresh and charming”
When was the play set?
1912
When was J.B Priestly born?
1894
Being badly wounded and gassed during the war did what?
Influenced his choice of setting for inspector calls
Was Priestly a capitalist or socialist?
socialist
Who is the only lower class character in the play?
Edna the Maid
