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Mind Map by Aishah Rao, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Aishah Rao
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An Inspector Calls
By Aishah Rao
- Themes
- Love
- Sheila and
Gerald's
relationship
is put to the
test
- Mr.B's view is only to see
the two companies be in
harmony together and to
have a prosperous
business.
- Mrs.B may have had a
loveless marriage. She is
socially more superior
than Birling. "men with
important work to do
sometimes have to spend
nearly all their energy on
their business". Can link to
loneliness
- Sheila and
Gerald's
relationship
is put to the
test
- Responsibility
- Mr.B feels his
responsibility is to
make a success of
his business.
- As a family man (Birling) he has a
responsibility to provide for
the material needs of his
family. Making it clear to Eric
that "he is not the kind of
father a chap could go and
talk to".
- Mrs.B feels she has
the responsibility
of only helping
those who deserve
help.
- Sheila has realised
that as a powerful
customer she has an
obligation not to let
her personal feelings
and ill-temper lead to
misery for people who
have no power
- Eric has little sense
of responsibility. He
drinks far more
than is good for him
- Gerald showed a
sense of
responsibility
when he rescued
the girl from
unwanted
attentions from
another man
- All of them have
had an active
role, of the
demise of Eva
Smith/Daisy
Renton
- Mr.B feels his
responsibility is to
make a success of
his business.
- Time
- Their actions at the end of
the play determine the end
result of Eva/Daisy
- We wonder
whether things will
be different and
how the characters
will behave.
- Priestley set his
play in 1912, two
years before the
start of the First
World War
- The Inspector
arrives before
the suicide is
a reality
- The Inspector
offers the
characters to
change the
future, to break
the circle
- The reflections of the
past, and the possibilities
of the future, highlight
the importance of caring
for others, of taking
responsibility for our
actions and considering
the consequences of
them.
- Their actions at the end of
the play determine the end
result of Eva/Daisy
- Society
- We are given the
perspective of the rich
and powerful to the
poor and destitute.
- Priestley uses the inspector as
his mouth piece,to try and get
others to accept that all
people share a common
humanity and so are part of
an interdependent
community.
- The inspector
becomes a
spokesperson for the
disadvantaged and a
voice for the
conscience which
the Birlings and
Gerlad lack.
- The inspector has a
oratorical style of
speaking, especially when
he is making his final
speech on suffering from
"blood,fire and anguish"
if they don't change their
ways.
- We are given the
perspective of the rich
and powerful to the
poor and destitute.
- Love
- Social & Historical Context
- Historical
- "An Inspector Calls"
written in 1946 but
set in 1912 before
the First World
War.
- Sliding as a
world power (1912)
- War in
Europe
looming (1912)
- Exploitation
of the
working
classes (1912)
- Arrogance of
the
manufacturing
industry (1912)
- Strikes, civil
unrest, huge
class divisions
(1912)
- 2nd World war
ended (1946)
- Detonation of
2 nuclear
bombs on
Japan (1946)
- 80 million
deaths
(1946)
- Russia emerging
as a global
superpower
(1946)
- "An Inspector Calls"
written in 1946 but
set in 1912 before
the First World
War.
- Social
- Priestly is seen
as a Socialist.
- Birling made his money
through building up a
successful manufacturing
business.
- Mrs.B Corrects her
husband when he thanks
"cook" suggests that she
comes from a "better"
family background than
Birling
- Enhanced his status
by getting on to the
town council,
becoming Lord Mayor
and accepting duties
of a Magistrate.
- By getting a
knighthood Sheila
will be presented
as a more
daughter-in-law
for Lady Croft
- His questioning
brings out secrets
that will cause a
"scandal" and
seriously damage
the Birlings' social
position
- Priestly is seen
as a Socialist.
- Political
- Hierarchy;
Capitalists at the
top Socialists at
the bottom.
- The Suffragettes
(women's vote) - Sheila
is rude and disobedient
to all the men. (1912)
- Hierarchy;
Capitalists at the
top Socialists at
the bottom.
- Historical
- Main characters & Key
quotes
- Mr Birling
- "I speak as a
hard-headed
business man"
- "a man has to
mind his own
business and look
after himself and
his own"
- "Look - there's
nothing
mysterious- or
scandalous- about
this business- at
least not so far as
I'm concerned
- "I'll admit that
fellow's antics
rattled us a bit. But
we've found him
out - and all we
have to do is keep
our heads."
- "I speak as a
hard-headed
business man"
- Mrs.Birling
- "men with
important work to
do sometimes have
to spend nearly all
their time and
energy on their
business"
- "that was one
of the things
that prejudiced
me against her
case."
- "Unlike the other
three, I did nothing
I'm ashamed of or
that won't bear
investigation"
- "men with
important work to
do sometimes have
to spend nearly all
their time and
energy on their
business"
- Gerald
- "you seem to
be a nice
well-behaved
family"
- " She looked
looked young and
fresh and
charming and
altogether out of
place down there."
- "you seem to
be a nice
well-behaved
family"
- Inspector
- "But after all it's
better to ask for
the earth than to
take it."
- "A nice little
promising life there,
I thought, and a
nasty mess
somebody's made of
it."
- "You see, we have to
share something. If
there's nothing else,
we'll have to share
out guilt."
- "We often [make
an impression] on
the young ones.
They're more
impressionable."
- "he's a young
man. And
some young
men drink far
too much."
- "There'll be plenty of
time , when I've gone,
for you all to adjust
your family
relationships."
- The Inspector
is omnipresent
- "One Eva Smith has
gone - but there are
millions and millions
and millions of Eva
Smiths and John
Smiths still left with
us"
- "the time will soon
come when, if men will
not learn that lesson,
then they will be
taught it in fire and
blood and anguish."
- " And you think
young women
ought to be
protected against
unpleasant and
disturbing things?"
- "Let's leave
offence out of it,
shall we?"
- "But after all it's
better to ask for
the earth than to
take it."
- Sheila
- "What do you
mean by saying
that? You talk as
if we were
responsible-"
- "But these girls
aren't cheap
labour- they're
people."
- "At least I'm trying
to tell the truth. I
expect you've
done things you're
ashamed of too."
- " We've no excuse now
for putting on airs and if
we've any sense we
won't try."
- "Because mother's been
busy blaming everything
on the young man who
got this girl into trouble."
- "But now you're
beginning all
over again to
pretend that
nothing much
has happened."
- "The point is,
you don't seem
to have learnt
anything."
- "that summer
when you
stayed away
from me, I
wondered what
happened"
- "What do you
mean by saying
that? You talk as
if we were
responsible-"
- Eric
- "In a way she
treated me- as if I
were a kid."
- "I wasn't in love
with her or
anything - but I
liked her- she
was pretty and a
good sport-"
- "You're beginning to
pretend now that
nothing's really happened
at all. And I can't see it like
that."
- "In a way she
treated me- as if I
were a kid."
- Mr Birling
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