In the exposition of the play 'An Inspector calls' Priestley states how the older and younger generation are different. In Act 1, Mr Birling is talking about responsibility with the men and how a man has to look after 'himself' which is soon interrupted by the 'sharp doorbell'. This is evident in the stage directions suggesting that the Inspector has arrived to attack Mr birlings message which creates conflict between them. The word 'sharp' creates tension to the audience because interruption of Mr Birlings speech is not a coincidence. In Act 1, Mr Birling explains that the inspectors message is 'nonsense' and Mrs birling says that 'i don't take any responsibility' further on in the play. However sheila does when she asks 'so i really am responsible' and 'it was anything but a joke'. Eric says 'and i say the girl is dead and we all helped to kill her' suggesting he feels guilty and remorseful like sheila. This has a big contrast between the older and younger generation. This suggests that Priestley believes that the younger generation can be influenced easily because they are young and he therefore allows the audience to question themselves about responsibility. The inspector's final speech is the overall message Priestley is trying to get across by stating that there are 'millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths still left with us' suggesting that there is hope for change. However, when the family find out the inspector wasn't real they act like nothing has happened whereas the younger generation, sheila, explains them that they should have 'learnt' something even if he wasn't real. This suggests that the younger generation are wiser than the older generation. At the end of the play we hear a 'sharp' ring of a phone saying a girl has just died which is linked back to the beginning. This suggests that the Inspector is a mouthpiece of Priestley trying to explain that if the older generation do not alter their actions and if they continue being arrogant, the cycle of life will continue and many more people will die.
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but at 2:01 Eric says those lines, not Gerald as it would be strange to talk about Gerald's mother if she is hardly mentioned other than the dinner scene.
Please could you do a video on answering the question 'How does the inspector try to teach the family about morality?' This is much needed so please do take this into consideration! Thank you! 😊
Inspector “One eva smith has gone - but there are millions and millions, and millions of Eva smiths and john smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, with what we think and say and do.”
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. we are responsible for each other. “ “And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.” “It would do us all good if sometimes we tried wo put ourselves in place of these young women” “We have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.” “We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.” “Public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges.” Mr birling “You ought to like this port, Gerald.” “Hard-headed businessman” “Hard-headed, practical man of business” “a man has to make his own way- has to look after himself” “Keep labour costs down” “The Germans don’t want war” “Absolutely unsinkable.” “there’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did” Mrs birling “Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things” Sheila “You fool- he knows” “You’re forgetting I’m supposed to be engaged to the hero” “It was true, wasn’t it?” She is the role model to the audience people can change Gerald “I don’t come into this suicide business” “everything’s all right now” Eric ‘Half shy, half assertive’ “In that state when a chap easily turns nasty” “And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember-that’s the hellish thing.” “Not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble” “We did her in all right.” “It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters”
Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a series on Silas Marner. This is one of the books I am doing in English and hardly anyone in my class understands it. I would be so so so grateful if you would as I am also doing this book (An Inspector Calls) and it has been really useful as revision material. Thank you!
Hey, could you please do some videos on "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and/or "The Merchant of Venice" ( and possibly the deep and dangerous poems, if you have the time and the willingness to do it ) for the iGCSE literature folks out there ? It would be much appreciated :)
Hi Mr Bruff, could you possibly make a video explaining how to analyse literary non-fiction? Basically stuff like Journalism, travel writing, observations, autobiographies etc. It's part of the iGCSE AQA English Language syllabus and would be of great use to me :) Thank you :D
*There isn't that much of analysis, it's mostly telling, is it possible to make videos where you focus more on language and stage direction analysis??* Don't get me wrong I love the videos, they simply do not focus as much on analysis as they should.
In the exposition of the play 'An Inspector calls' Priestley states how the older and younger generation are different. In Act 1, Mr Birling is talking about responsibility with the men and how a man has to look after 'himself' which is soon interrupted by the 'sharp doorbell'. This is evident in the stage directions suggesting that the Inspector has arrived to attack Mr birlings message which creates conflict between them. The word 'sharp' creates tension to the audience because interruption of Mr Birlings speech is not a coincidence.
In Act 1, Mr Birling explains that the inspectors message is 'nonsense' and Mrs birling says that 'i don't take any responsibility' further on in the play. However sheila does when she asks 'so i really am responsible' and 'it was anything but a joke'. Eric says 'and i say the girl is dead and we all helped to kill her' suggesting he feels guilty and remorseful like sheila. This has a big contrast between the older and younger generation. This suggests that Priestley believes that the younger generation can be influenced easily because they are young and he therefore allows the audience to question themselves about responsibility.
The inspector's final speech is the overall message Priestley is trying to get across by stating that there are 'millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths still left with us' suggesting that there is hope for change. However, when the family find out the inspector wasn't real they act like nothing has happened whereas the younger generation, sheila, explains them that they should have 'learnt' something even if he wasn't real. This suggests that the younger generation are wiser than the older generation.
At the end of the play we hear a 'sharp' ring of a phone saying a girl has just died which is linked back to the beginning. This suggests that the Inspector is a mouthpiece of Priestley trying to explain that if the older generation do not alter their actions and if they continue being arrogant, the cycle of life will continue and many more people will die.
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all i have to do is come up with a thesis....thank you
Cyclical structure of 'sharp' nice
@@Jokie. for those who are struggling with this inspector essay I posted it on my youtube cause it isn't easy finding in the comments
The night before my exam wishing i had got his revision guide
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Aya Maria nice English, maybe you should check out mrbruff's English language playlist lol.
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I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but at 2:01 Eric says those lines, not Gerald as it would be strange to talk about Gerald's mother if she is hardly mentioned other than the dinner scene.
Haha yeah, Mr Bruff says Eric but the picture shows Gerald
yesss it's written gerald but it's eric
this is literally 2021 and this video is from 2016
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It is Eric
Good luck to all those sitting exams in 2017 this summer
Dayyum 6 years ago... how's life dude. you working as anything
could you please do a video for all themes, like equality and socialism
+WhoAmi more coming soon
I had done no more than my duty
@@mrbruff 3 years later he never made them haha
Emaan that’s what i was thinking lol
@@BENDOVER-hr1pn 4 years later and he hasnt made one lol
thank you this really helped ! i have a test in 2 weeks on this exact topic and this will help alottt thanks !!
I think it would be really great and helpful if you mad short clips summing up the writers overall message and intentions for all of the texts
you should add the act and scene for each quote
I got an exam about this today but I am not even in year 11.
mrbruff thanks and so do I
@@elizabethcraven5416 I’m in year 10 and my exam is tomorrow
@@ultimateunclegene7428 well goodluck. I hope it goes well for you, I passed all mine, this helped a lot during my exams I'm sure it will you
@@elizabethcraven5416 it went terribly, thank god it was a mock
2:01 it's eric not gerald
Hello everyone at wes, giving you a happy and hopefully gcse this week
mr bruff , could you please do a video on how to structure your answer in an inspector calls, thank you and keep up the good work g
+Jahed Rahman there's a sample answer in the ebook at mrbruff.com
this really helped thank you so much
Great!
Please could you do a video on answering the question 'How does the inspector try to teach the family about morality?'
This is much needed so please do take this into consideration!
Thank you! 😊
This is really helpful can yo please do more quick videos on the themes of inspector calls they really help
Inspector
“One eva smith has gone - but there are millions and millions, and millions of Eva smiths and john smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, with what we think and say and do.”
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. we are responsible for each other. “
“And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
“It would do us all good if sometimes we tried wo put ourselves in place of these young women”
“We have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.”
“We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.”
“Public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges.”
Mr birling
“You ought to like this port, Gerald.”
“Hard-headed businessman”
“Hard-headed, practical man of business”
“a man has to make his own way- has to look after himself”
“Keep labour costs down”
“The Germans don’t want war”
“Absolutely unsinkable.”
“there’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did”
Mrs birling
“Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things”
Sheila
“You fool- he knows”
“You’re forgetting I’m supposed to be engaged to the hero”
“It was true, wasn’t it?”
She is the role model to the audience people can change
Gerald
“I don’t come into this suicide business”
“everything’s all right now”
Eric
‘Half shy, half assertive’
“In that state when a chap easily turns nasty”
“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember-that’s the hellish thing.”
“Not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
“We did her in all right.”
“It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters”
Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a series on Silas Marner. This is one of the books I am doing in English and hardly anyone in my class understands it. I would be so so so grateful if you would as I am also doing this book (An Inspector Calls) and it has been really useful as revision material. Thank you!
Hey, could you please do some videos on "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and/or "The Merchant of Venice" ( and possibly the deep and dangerous poems, if you have the time and the willingness to do it ) for the iGCSE literature folks out there ? It would be much appreciated :)
+kacper kazaniecki both coming within a few months
i’ve got mine on responsibility tomorrow so i’ll probably use this lol
thank you Mr Bruff i watched you and you helped me move from set 5 to set 4 and im improving in literature from a 5+ in yr 10 to a 6- in yr 11 =)
Well done and thank you!
Thanks, your vids are really helpful
Getting me through my exam 😂
Veryyy helpful thank you so much!!!
You're welcome!
Please make for all the themes in An Inspector Calls
Thank you so much Mr Bruff! Your videos are so helpful, keep up the good work :)
this is going to help my exam,thank you Mr Bruff
Glad to help.
next time...
how does Priestley show conflict in *"An Inspector Calls"?*
Sir, what are the themes in an inspector calls in the aqa specification
Imagine Miss Stuhr sends you here
could you please do videos about Robert Cormier 'Heroes' please :)
+Larrold Stylinson afraid I have never read it
mrbruff oh ok :)
do we have to analyse the quotes with like techniques and stuff?
Anyone else got the exam in 2 hours
Hi Mr Bruff, could you possibly make a video explaining how to analyse literary non-fiction? Basically stuff like Journalism, travel writing, observations, autobiographies etc.
It's part of the iGCSE AQA English Language syllabus and would be of great use to me :)
Thank you :D
+I love pizza covered in my Language ebook at mrbruff.com
Does this video perhaps suggest that the 2016 literature exam may have a question based on this theme? ;)
+Jack Williams nope!
+mrbruff I think it might be;)
could you please do an analyse on Jekyll and Hyde as that is in my exam could you maybe do a song on it if so that would be great thanks
*There isn't that much of analysis, it's mostly telling, is it possible to make videos where you focus more on language and stage direction analysis??*
Don't get me wrong I love the videos, they simply do not focus as much on analysis as they should.
See the first video in this playlist for some higher level analysis.
where do you download it from?
Shelia looks like Ronda rousey in this 😂😂
Not me watching this 30mins before me exam🙄
Can someone tell me where the inspectors quote was in the book?
I know it's late but:
page 30 (right at the start of act 2)
addressed to Mrs Birling.
By E-book what do you mean is it downloaded on to the computer or on a kindle... but I don't have a kindle though :(
+Shajith Umasaran at mrbruff.com it's a PDF which downloads to your pc
Alright that's cool think I would buy it
So can I just pay for it and it will be on the computer
+Shajith Umasaran the file is emailed to you (and also is shown on screen to save)
alright so I can access it on the computer without using a kindle?
Sir if like one to one tuition. Any suggestions??
+Zara Star email me abruff@live.co.uk
+mrbruff alright I'll get right on it...
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Can I get the guide for An Inspector Calls as a hardcopy, I can only seem to find the Kindle edition? Thanks
No hard copy I'm afraid
Oh ok, thanks
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