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An Inspector Calls - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Patriachal Society
    - - Capitalism vs Socialism
    - - As she gains socialist undertones, the audience likes her more
      - She matures along the play, such as going from "mummy" and "daddy", to "mother" and "father"
      - She also gains more socialist as the play goes on
      - Socialist
      - At the start, she was submissive and naive, but at the end she took power and control
    - - New generation of socialist
      - Has character development over time and adopts socialist mindset and suddenly he has morals despite his doings before
        
        Has remorse
        
        Wants to change
      - Start of play, he is immature and childish
    - - Capitalist
      - Rude
      - Arrogant
      - Ignorant
        
        Dramatic irony
        
        "Quote war"
        
        "Quote titianic"
      - Refusal to take part in social responsibility
      - Neglect of the lower classes
      - Sexist
        
        "Quote about sheila and gerald, sheila , men's business"
      - Middle class as of his accent
      - Briling is materialistic as he wants to marry off Sheila
    - - Capitalist
      - Disliked by the audience
      - Ruthless, cold-hearted
      - All connotations of stereotypical capitalism represented, associating capitalism with bad reputation
      - Thus, persuading the audience towards socialism
      - Upper class
        
        Posh accent
        
        Inheritance money
    - - Birling and Mrs Birling care more about their reputation than the girls death
      - They only care about the look of their perfect family when there is a generational, familiarial divide between old and young.
    - - Extended metaphor of working class
      - Purposely chosen ordinary name
    - - Name has a multiple meaning of "GHOUL"
      - Extended metaphor of the saviour in the play
      - Priestley's envisionment of himself in the play
      - Blunt, gruesome description of Eva's death
        
        [quote]
      - He interrupts Birling, attains dominance
      - If people do not start taking responsibility for each other, the world will end in "fire, blood and anguish" (biblical reference)
  - - - Supposed to teach you a meaning at the end of the play which conveys a message of social responsibility
      - Same as Allegory
  - - - Pride
        
        Mrs Birling/ Birling/ Eric
      - Lust
        
        Eric
      - Greed
        
        Birling/ Gerald
      - Envy
        
        Sheila
      - Gluttony
        
        Eric (addiction to alcohol)
      - Wrath
        
        Mrs Birling
      - Sloth
        
        Sheila/ Mrs Birling (No job/ sit there and talk)