Zusammenfassung der Ressource
An Inspector
calls Techniques
- dramatic irony
- makes B look foolish - so
we don't trust his capitalist
ideas
- humour
- audience has advantage over
characters - makes them more
open to the message
- stage direction
- set the audience up to think
about character in a certain
way before play starts
- make revelation later in the play carry more weight
- emphasises character emotions - audience
understand social message
- the inspector
- device to move plot along and
control the pace of events
- keeps the pace = interest audience +
highlights the socialist message
- setting and lighting
- pink @ beginning - looking at life through 'rose
tinted glasses'
- reflects the mood is about to change
- the birling's removing the glasses to a place where there actions are revealed under harsh lighting
- tension
- created by pace - small bits of info revealed at a time
- keeps us guessing till end of play
- makes us curious
- showing the photo one at a time
- foreshadowing
- subtle hints given
throughout the play
about whats gonna
happen next
- arouses interest in audience
- e.g we know that the comfortable
atmosphere will change - eric nervous about
something
- Exits and entrences
- dramatic effect and add to tensions
- highlight relevant areas
- characters escaping from something
- Euphemism
- avoid saying something unpleasant by using
vaguer words
- hiding from the truth
- "women of the town" - prostitues