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An Inspector Calls - Coggle Diagram
An Inspector Calls
Act 1
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The setting starts with a "fairly large, suburban house". Represents Birlings as a rich, upper class family.
When the Inspector arrives, the lighting is bright and harsh, symbolising the light in the darkness, the saviour. (biblical connotations)
Birling is a prosperous manufacturer and the furniture he sells is "good" and "solid". Reflects him as a person as he is a stubborn, ignorant, "hard-headed businessman"
"Giving us the port Edna?". This instantly gives the audience a warm introduction as this is an upper class family.
"Yes, go on, mummy". Sheila uses child-like nouns to portray her naviety. Irony, as later in the play, she matures.
"silly, pessimistic talk". Condescending language against socialists
"there isn't a chance of war", "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable". Proleptic irony as Birling's ignorance blinded him from the sink of the titanic and the Great War. This will have aggravated audience and slightly tainted his reputation
Themes
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Social class
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DYNAMIC MORALITY
Supposed to teach you a meaning at the end of the play which conveys a message of social responsibility
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Religion
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Biblical references such as the world will end in “fire, blood and anguish” . If people do not accept responsibility this will happen
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Setting
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Perfect intro, lighting being pink and intimate
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Priestley's message
Main message was to give capitalism a bad representation and to instill a sociliast mindset into society
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