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Character - Inspector - Coggle Diagram
Character - Inspector
Quotes
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Act 3
"there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, ... all intertwined with our lives"
Power of 3 in repetitions of 'millions' - shows the extent of people in working class who need help/have been exploited with capitalist upper class
Use of conjunction 'and' lengthens sentence and could reflect the length of time working class have been treated purely
Alliteration of 'm' sound - creates frustrated/angry tone - Priestley speaking through Inspector: want for change
'intertwined - verb - reflects the socialist idea of classes not being separate - need for people to support and take responsibility for one another
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"if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish"
'fire and blood and anguish' - Triple - Emphasises importance of Inspector's warning if people don't take responsibility for their actions
Links to Christian idea of Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) - Shows if people don't take responsibility, they may be punished in both life and death - Emphasises it as a moral sin to not look after one another
'fire' and 'blood' have annotations of conflict - warning of future wars if men do not work together to resolve issues
'anguish' - connotations of fear - reflects Priestley's fear about future is men don't learn to cooperate - reflects context of time of play being written after WW2 causing enormous loss of life
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