Zusammenfassung der Ressource
An Inspector Calls: Characters
- Eric
- Mr Birling
- Capitalist
- Has an antithetical view to Priestly
- "A man has to mind his own business"
- Oxymoronic Naivety
- Dramatic Irony
- "Titanic... absolutely unsinkable"
- "Russia.. will always be behindhand"
- 7 Deadly Sins
- Greed
- "Working together... for lower costs
and higher prices"
- Pride
- "Just a knighthood of course"
- Lack of change
- Refuses to accept change
- "But the whole thing's different now"
- Mrs Birling
- Snobbery
- "Girls of that class"
- 7 Deadly Sins
- Pride
- "Piece of gross impertinence"
- Denial
- Her own actions
- Claims not to recognise
the photograph
- "I did nothing I'm ashamed of"
- Actions of others
- "There must be some mistake"
(on Eric)
- "Scruples that were absurd in a girl in her position"
(on Eva)
- Gerald
- 7 Deadly Sins
- Lust
- Setting up Eva/Daisy as his mistress
- Aristocracy
- Similar to Mrs. Birling
- Marrying 'beneath him'
- "Old country family"
- Conflict
- Only one to feel for Eva
- "I was sorry for her"
- Attempts to rid his responsibility
- Tries desperately to prove the
Inspector's non-existence
- Sheila
- The Inspector
- Socialism
- "We are members of one body"
- Mouthpiece for Priestly's views
- Historical Context
- General Strike 1964
- WW2 dismantled old
systems of class
- Authority
- Contrast against the Birlings
- (Dryly) against (Distressed)
- (Takes charge massively)
- Identity
- Time
- Ouspensky's Theory
- Dunne's Theory
- Existence
- Person
- Supernatural
- Goole - Ghoul
- Revealer
- Systematic Interrogation
- "One line of enquiry at a time"
- Dissection
- (Cutting in)
- Invagination
- Uncomfortable exterior
entering the interior