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‘Substantial and heavily comfortable’

‘not cosy and homelike’ SD

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imposing adjective ‘substantial’ connotes extreme wealth, surrounded by luxury
Excessive adverb ‘heavily’ overdone - materialistic as ‘not cosy and homelike’. Alternatively, suggests lack of family warmth
This gives the impression to the 1945 audience that the family is upper-class and are capitalistic
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Pink and intimate SD

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Warm adjectives in happy tone 
Creates rosy-tinted atmosphere, reflect on rosy-tinted view of upper class people due to their privileges over the poor lower-class.
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Brighter and harder SD

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Harsh comparative adjectives, contrasts to the previous joyful atmosphere
Imagery of the family being investigated, light shined on them by inspector
Priestley scrutinise on the family

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The parlourmaid SD

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Maidservant noun
family is rich to be able to afford a maid - privileged
However, perhaps imply maid=representation women in Edwardian society serving others

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Heavy-looking SD

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Heavy-looking - Adjective

Gluttonous, large presence, pompous air, greedy

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Provincial in his speech SD

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Adjective ‘provincial’
Accent indicates he’s not of noble origin
Apart of a new class that emerged due to the Industrial Revolution - people who had a rise in fortunes by using the new methods of industry, rather than being in a wealthy noble family

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Cold woman SD

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oxymoron at the time
Societal norms dictated women were meant to be loving and emotional
Detached attitude is unnatural

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Husband’s social superior SD

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Noble family
Upper class from birth
Husband climbed up from social ladder
Connotations of haughty upper-class from noun “superior”

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Pretty girl SD

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Adjective ‘pretty’ - No other defining feature
Society values looks
Young noun “girl” immaturity

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Very pleased with life SD

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Adverb “very”

Adjective “pleased”

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Rather excited SD

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Eager adjective “excited”

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‘Easy well-bred’

‘young man about town’ SD

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Idiomatic phrase
Fashionable socialite
Plural connotations
Perhaps, foreshadows unfaithful nature of Gerald as he goes around town

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early twenties SD

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Repetition

United, similar

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Half shy, half assertive SD

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Contrast

Inner turmoil

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Giving us the port, Edna? 11

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Invisibly

Regarded as a functionary

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(gaily, possessively) 11

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Stage direction

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mummy

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Childish tone

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Edna. I’ll ring from the drawing room

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Commanding tone

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Yes ma’am

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Formal tone
The polite address
Contrasts with how the Birling family calls her “Edna”

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(half serious, half playful)

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Contrast

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when you never came near me 11

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Keen

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You’re squiffy 11

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Colloquial language

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(who has put the ring on, admiringly) 11

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Admiringly = adverb

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hard-headed businessman 11

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Adjective “hard-headed”

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unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable 11

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Repetition

Dramatic irony

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Silly little war scares 11

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Derogatory Adjective “silly” “little”

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Russia, which will always be behindhand naturally 11

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Dramatic irony

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community and all that nonsense

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Noun “nonsense”

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(sharp ring of a doorbell) 11

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Stage direction

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Show him in here. 11

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Short monosyllabic words

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impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness 11

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Triplet

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carefully, weightily 11

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Adverb

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I’m on duty 11

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Short sentence

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burnt her inside out 11

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Shocking imagery

Grotesque verb ‘burnt’

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(involuntarily) My god! 11

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Exclamation

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Great agony 11

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Abstract noun

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Yes, yes. Horrid business. 11

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Dismissive tone

Short sentence

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several hundred young women there 11

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Determiner “several”

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they keep changing 11

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Continuous
Supply
Verb “keep”

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wretched girl’s suicide 11

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Adjective “wretched”

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chain of events

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Metaphorical image.
Concrete noun “chain”- embodies physical linking. Perhaps inferring the links between various events involving the Birlings and Eva Smith could be what weighs down the entire family

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it isn’t if you can’t go and work somewhere else 11

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Eric

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(with a marked change of tone) 11

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Birling

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(cutting in) 11

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Birling cuts in

Sheila cuts in

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lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate 11

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Pathos

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these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people 11

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Hyphen- pause of realisation as she releases the value of human lives. The pause also forces the audience to pause their thoughts to realise the same as Sheila

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counting their pennies, in their dingy little back bedrooms

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Gloomy adjectives
“Dingy” “little”
Poverty imagery

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upsetting the child like that? 11

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Infantilising Noun “child”

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we’re respectable citizens and not criminals

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Gerald

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I was in a furious temper 11

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Impulsive
Adjective “furious”
Noun “temper”

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mother I couldn’t possibly go 22

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Mature noun “mother”

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she refused to take any more 33

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money- support//covering up what he did

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taught it in fire and blood and anguish 33

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Semantic field of war

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(pointing at Sheila and Eric, and laughing) 33

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Verb “laughing”

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What about this ring? 33

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Ring symbolic of shackles society places on women

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The famous young generation who know it all 33

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Mocking tone

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The telephone rings sharply 33

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Repetition of imagery of “rings sharply”

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guiltily and dumbfounded 33

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Ashamed adverb
Adjective “dumbfounded”
Cliffhanger

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I have written a clear introudction and conclusion to my response - in his modern morality play

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priestly clealry presents…ultimatejly it can be seen that

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i have tracked the character or theme cacross the whole of the play using structural terms: ]

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establishment, outset, crisis, conflict, climatic, denoucement, cliff hanger, twist

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i have used accurate terminology to explore the language and techniques employed by stevensn-

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symbolism, metaphor, simile, imagery, noun phrase, verb phrase

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i have used appropriate terms to expore the form of the play

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stage directions, dialogue, staging, characcter interaction, dramatic irony, audience, dramatix tension

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i have used appropriate verbs to evoke what prislty is doing as a writier

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portrays, conveys, depicts, highlights, evokes

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i have used adjectives and adverbs to evaluate the effects and the writer’s techniques, Priestley

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Sheila’s impassioned plea, the powerful metaphor, priestley skillfuly conveys

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i have written clealry and accurately in my resonse ensuring correct spelling of characters’ and the writer’s names, capital letters for bames, acts and at the beginning of the sentences, clearly coherrent sentences which mske sense

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SPAG

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total marks

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35+5

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29-35 marks band 5 part 1

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candidates focus on the task. including overview, convey ideas with consistent coherence and use an appropriate register, uses a sensitive and evaluative approach in the task and analyse the extract and wider text cirtically, show a perceptive understanding of the extracted wider text, engaging fully, perhaps with some originality, in their personal response, their responses include pertinent, direct references from across the etract and wider text, including quotations

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29-35 band 5 part 2

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candidates
analys and apprpriate writerls use of language, form, and structure, make assured reference to meanings and effects, exploring and evluating the way meaning and ideas are conveyed trhough the language structure and form:
use precise subject therminolog in an appropriate context

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Paragraph introduction

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In the didactic morality play ‘An Inspector Calls’, Priestley presents

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Paragraph midddle

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In the exposition of the play, Priestley establishes…

This is further reinforced by….

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Paragraph conclusion

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In conclusion, ….

Ultimately….

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Context

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-Edwardian society 1912 (before both world wars) to 1945 post-World War 2 audience
- 1912 class system (serve under, and stereotypes ( inferior, thieves, criminals, sinners, didn’t work hard enough)
- Victorian culture influence of Edwardian society: double life upper class led. Fallen women (prostitution and mistresses) society condemned and believed fallen from the grace of God. Romantic ideal : gentlemanly chivalry towards fallen women was celebrated. Sexual exploitation and lust - preyed on these as easy targets to satisfy their list while getting credit from peers.
-unmarried women ostracised from society, vulnerable, poverty.
-upper class women counterparts rely on marrying and supported by husband’s wealth, lower class had to work to support. Lowest-paid, many had no education.
-stigma of having child out of marriage
-abortions illegal. Face risk of backstreet abortions.
-capitalistic competition encouraged inequality, conflict and oppression (child labour, poor working conditions to maximise profits)
socialism=equality, cooperate, eliminate poverty
- women’s suffragette movement. Anti-suffragists groups formed by women.
-patriarchal society
-women taking up men’s roles during the wars and contribution, women in the workforce increased. Uniting upper and lower as everyone were faced under the same conditions in war (Conscription - mandatory enlistment to army no matter class). Nurtured Community spirit.
-Priestley witnessed a lot of poverty amongst the working class where he was born, Bradford
-Priestley served WW1, victim of a gas attack and nearly died.
- play first performed in 1945 in Moscow, Russia. Country Experienced Russian revolution and effects of a socialist regime on society. Russia now symbol of political strength
-titanic sank 1912. Symbol of luxury and grandeur. Just like birling family, will sink.
-1930s period of economic struggle. The Great Depression.

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Eric Birling

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  • naivety and ignorant
  • redemption, source of optimism
  • society norms for the immoral behaviour - follows footsteps of other men
  • remorse regrets responsibility
  • drinking habits due to dysfunctional family relationships and not having a good role of a father. Coping mechanism.
  • weak, conforms to class system
  • aware that it’s immoral, wrong, of the corruption, hypocrisy, socialism
  • powerless on own, lack of influence, unite
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Eva Smith

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Universal symbol of oppression
Collective suffering of the lower-class
Victim of patriarchal society and class inequality
Eva= Adam and Eve
Representation of all women. While eve tempted men to corruption by offering Adam the apple, Eva is corrupted by the men in the play
Smith - most common surname - symbolise everyday people of Britain- working class name
Renton services from verb rent
Had to change the direction of her life to survive in a society that is hostile
Her graphic death is the consequences of immoral actions of others
Fatal impact of capitalist attitudes
Her life was already a living hell - tho suicide is a sin she still did it.
Parallel between her and Sheila to show how class is the only thing that differentiates them and determines their life
Antithesis to her stereotypes

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Gerald

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Physically attractive privileged but likeable man. Neutral = representation of audience and upper-class
Condescending to women and misogynistic
Aware of the immorality but does nothing to change it
Opposes hypocrisy of audience
Apparent changes in attitudes of upper-class superficial
Capitalist
Gentlemen charity - romantic ideals - sexual exploitation - unfaithful

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Mr Birling

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Social elite
Construct of capitalism
Patriarchal role as owner of his factories which employs women
Cyclical presentation
Static character static society
Antithesis of Inspector - battle between capitalism and socialism
Insecurity of his social position within hierarchy - not born noble or have a noble linage

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Mrs Birling

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Represents selfish nature privileges and prejudicial of upper class
Anti-suffragette
Cold and uncaring towards her children
Image conscious
Constantly paranoid of her reputation to on being tarnished, benefits from class system
Hypocrisy
Resistance of upper class women to change that threatens their social position and comfortable lifestyle

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Sheila Birling

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Naive privileged ignorant immature insecure
Matures
Resentment towards the lack of social responsibility their parents feel
Takes on role of inspector’s proxy
Product of her environment - oppressed
Embryonic feminist
Socialism
Likeable - boost his message of socialism
Rebellion against parents and alignment with inspector

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Inspector

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Construct of socialism
Antithesis of Mr Birling
Omniscient moral force
Spiritual avenging angel
Priestley’s mouthpiece
Religiously good, favourable to socialism
Strength and consistency of his values 
Need for change, not omnipotent to emphasise society needs to change in its own to truly change - Priestley message would be less effective if inspector forced the characters. Audience need to accept greater responsibility without an external force. 
Or else consequences of another war
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Cyclical structure

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Characters failed to understand inspector’s message
Static society static characters
Leads to consequences repeating
2 world wars

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Structure

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exposition, outset, crisis, conflict, climatic, denoucement, cliff hanger, twist

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writer intention verbs

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instruct, persuade, inform, entertain, educate, enlighten, punish, console, criticize, celebrate, condemn, establish, reinforce, to reveal the importance of, to warn

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