JB Priestly(An inspector calls)-Importance of social clas Flashcards
some ideas about social class in thr play how priestly presents the importance of social class
AO1
Mr Birlings’s comments about the way society works and his snabbery wife
Mr Birlings (And geralds) comments about Ava’s activism
Sheila’s and Eric’s comments towards the end
The other character’s treatment of Eva (And Edna)
The inspector’s final speech
AO2-Presentation of…
What Edna says and does how the other characters treat her
Eva’s decline into poverty and it’s effects
Mr and Miss Birling when they speak about worker’s including stage directions
Birlings’s comments about Eva
Sheila’s and Eric’s comments towards the end
AO3
Reference to labour agitation/unfair wages/capitalism
highlighting of the luxury of the Birling’s lives
Use of the inspector throughout to comment on the different lives of the rich and the poor
The inspectors final speech and what is says about the lives of the poor
ideas about the lives of the poor might be improved and how the middle classes need to change