🕵🏻‍♂️ inspector goole

Question 1

• goole
• recognises the interrogations have changed the dynamics (how they get along)
• tells them that they will have to change their relationships as they get to know each other again
• need to find out true selves

Answer 1

‘There’ll be plenty of time, when I’ve gone, for you all to adjust your family relationships’

Question 2

• goole
• mouth piece and to voice his dislike for the way society is
• uses the Inspector to foretell the world wars
• audience would have known how this relates to the wars and as they will have lived through it they would have understood how terrifying and deadly the wars were

Answer 2

‘Then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.’

Question 3

• goole
• gaining in power and control over the situation
• It is not the first or last time that Birling is cut off mid-thought
• Priestley points an extra finger of blame at Birling not just for his actions, but for his failure to see that his public position entails a duty of responsibility to other people.
• this attitude draws on the traditional notion of the upper classes taking responsibility for the welfare of the lower classes, but in the newer, more democratic life of Britain, the “public men” are not necessarily of higher social class even if they have more public privileges; at any rate, their position of power comes with responsibility

Answer 3

‘(massively) Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’

Question 4

• goole
• speaks very plainly and does not soften the blow for them
• he wants them to have learnt something from this experience
• urges them to remember what they have done - rethink actions and think about others and how they hurt others

Answer 4

‘Each of you helped kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.’

Question 5

• goole
• He shows that he is focused and determined to stay on track and get to the bottom of the situation. This outbreak shows that he is fed up with society being how it is and he wants things to change.

Answer 5

‘(As Mr Birling tries to protest, turns on him) Don’t stammer and yammer again at me, man. I’m losing all patience with you people’

Question 6

• goole
• Priestley uses Inspector Goole as the social conscience
• This statement directly contrasts with Mr Birling’s comment in Act 1 where he says that everyone should look after themselves

Answer 6

‘One Eva Smith is gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us […] We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other’