Inspector calls

Question 1

Act 1 ( stage direction)-Mr Birling

Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in this speech.

Answer 1

Reveals that he is good with his speech and well mannered but is rather rich and what Priestley wants to oppose in society.

Question 2

Act 1-Mr Birling

And unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.

Answer 2

Reveals how he is not who the audience wants to listen to and should not through dramatic irony as they are in 1912. Associate the stupid with the rich.

Question 3

Act 1-Mr Birling

I can’t accept any responsibility

Answer 3

Reveals how even after he has proof of him being partly to blame does not, and as we already know he is wrong, we do not like his attitude

Question 4

Act 2-Mr Birling

The press might easily take it up

Answer 4

Reveals how he is not worried about the dead girl, but his family and their reputation-like his wife who got angry over the use of their name

Question 5

Act 1 (stage direction)-Mrs Birling

His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.

Answer 5

This shows how he has the same feelings about her that he has for her husband, but she has grown up in riches so has no idea about the poor.

Question 6

Act 2-Mrs Birling

He’s only a boy

Answer 6

Talking about Eric-she doesn’t know him as he is fully grown, just like her not knowing he is an alcoholic.

Question 7

Act 2-Mrs Birling

But I think she had only herself to blame.

Answer 7

Shows about how she is not taking any responsibility like Birling. Could be an attack on the generations and how they think differently.

Question 8

Act 2-Mrs Birling

I blame the young man who was the father

Answer 8

Still has doubts if the girl was telling the truth, but after finding out she was pregnant she blamed it on the father - Eric, digging the family a hole.

Question 9

Act 1 (stage direction)-Sheila

Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited

Answer 9

This shows how she is innocent but has never dealt with the poor so is ignorant and doesn’t represent what Priestley wants.

Question 10

Act 1-Sheila

But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people

Answer 10

She is taking socialist perspectives, siding with the inspector, also putting her on the other side to Gerald, foreshadowing things to come. This also shows how she relates with her as they are the same age.

Question 11

Act 1-Sheila

I’ll never, never do it again to anybody

Answer 11

Fully regrets it, as there is repetition you can tell she is being genuine.

Question 12

Act 2-Sheila

‘He’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves’

Answer 12

Metaphor, saying the inspector makes everyone realise they are responsible and the rope is the truth and he already knows the truth.

Question 13

Act 1-Eric

Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive

Answer 13

It reveals that he is unsure about something which could foreshadow something to hide.

Question 14

Act 3-Eric

I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty

Answer 14

It reveals how he was drunk and then must have raped her. He is distancing himself from the situation by calling himself a chap and blaming it on the alcohol saying he couldn’t control himself.

Question 15

Act 1(stage direction)-Gerald Croft

Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the well-bred young man-about-town.

Answer 15

This represents the rich and how they are ignorant. Could also foreshadow problems with him and his fiance. Priestley uses him to show how ignorant the rich are.

Question 16

Act 1-Gerald Croft

You couldn’t have done anything else.

Answer 16

This reveals how he is siding with Mr Birling and how he agrees with him. Priestley wants the audience to not be on his side from this point on.

Question 17

Act 1-Gerald Croft

After all, y’know we’re respectable citizens and not criminals.

Answer 17

This reveals how he thinks that as they are rich they can get away with things. This is also ironic due to all their actions.

Question 18

Act 2-Gerald Croft

She was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful.

Answer 18

She was grateful for the money and not being a prostitute. He is naive and didn’t realise that. Shows how he is easily changed and can fall in love easily.

Question 19

Act 2-Gerald Croft

It’s hard to say. I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.

Answer 19

He was using her, but as she was grateful she was more than happy. Shows the true Gerald.

Question 20

Act 1(stage direction)-Inspector Goole

The inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness.

Answer 20

He represents Prietley completely, and is assertive but precise and wants the truth to be revealed. Also very knowledgeable, unlike Birling, which shows the reader who to look at.

Question 21

Act 1-Inspector Goole

A chain of events.

Answer 21

This draws all the characters in from the beginning, which shows and allows the audience to make assumptions and use dramatic irony.

Question 22

Act 1-Inspector Goole

Few friends, lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate.

Answer 22

Trying to make the characters feel guilty about her, but still remaining professional and making it sound bad for her. Asyndetic list to show how many bad things were happening to the girl.

Question 23

Act 1-Inspector Goole

A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess someones made of it.

Answer 23

Using Birlings words against him, showing how it is his fault by using the words he said. Being blunt about the situation calling it a mess.

Question 24

Act 2-Inspector Goole

She died in misery and agony - hating life

Answer 24

Being blunt about the situation and before he was describing Sheila, so it was used to scare her.

Question 25

Act 2-Inspector Goole

And you slammed the door in her face

Answer 25

Using direct address and emotive language to show how ruthless she was turning her away at the society.