AN INSPECTOR CALLS Aim: To find out what you already know about the play. & To start considering character, themes and setting through analysing an AQA.

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AN INSPECTOR CALLS Aim: To find out what you already know about the play. & To start considering character, themes and setting through analysing an AQA exam question and preparing a plan.

AQA AO1 AO1 respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and evaluate relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and evaluate relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations AO2 AO2 explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings

IN THE REST OF THE PLAY, HOW DOES PRIESTLEY PRESENT AND DEVELOP SOME OF THE IDEAS SHOWN HERE? (30 MARKS) The dining-room of a fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous manufacturer. It has good solid furniture of the period. The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike. (If a realistic set is used, then it should be swung back, as it was in the production at the New Theatre. By doing this, you can have the dining-table centre downstage during Act One, when it is needed there, and then, swinging back, can reveal the fi replace for Act Two, and then for Act Three can show a small table with telephone on it, downstage of fi replace; and by this time the dining-table and its chairs have moved well upstage. Producers who wish to avoid this tricky business, which involves two re-settings of the scene and some very accurate adjustments of the extra fl ats necessary, would be well advised to dispense with an ordinary realistic set, if only because the dining-table becomes a nuisance. The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, and then is should be brighter and harder.) At rise of curtain, the four BIRLINGS and GERALD are seated at the table, with ARTHUR BIRLING at one end, his wife at the other, ERIC downstage, and SHEILA and GERALD seated upstage. EDNA, the parlour maid, is just clearing the table, which has no cloth, of dessert plates and champagne glasses, etc., and then replacing them with decanter of port, cigar box and cigarettes. Port glasses are already on the table. All fi ve are in evening dress of the period, the men in tails and white ties, not dinner-jackets. ARTHUR BIRLING is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fi fties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech. His wife is about fi fty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior. SHEILA is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited. GERALD CROFT is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town. ERIC is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive. At the moment they have all had a good dinner, are celebrating a special occasion, and are pleased with themselves. AQA: MAY 2012: REMIND YOURSELF OF THE STAGE DIRECTIONS FROM THE START OF ACT 1:

ANYTHING ELSE? AO1 AO1  Ideas about the class system – reference to the maid and Mrs Birling as ‘her husband’s social superior’  Ideas about characters – e.g. how Sheila is ‘pleased with life’, Eric being ‘not quite at ease’  The whole family being ‘pleased with themselves’  The idea of the house not being ‘cosy and homelike’ AO2 AO2  Use of irony – this world is turned upside down by the arrival of Inspector Goole  Reference to the lighting and how it is significant later in the play  Details used to present the Birling house / family and what they suggest  Features of language / stage directions / structure from later in the play relevant to the task

WRITE A PLAN 1.Choose at least four points you would like to expand upon. 2.Find textual evidence from later points in the play to compare to this opening (to show how Priestley develops these aspects). 3.Introduction? Is there an overlying theme to the points you have chosen? Social elements? Characters? Stage directions? Structure of the play? Theme? How are you going to introduce your essay? 4.Conclusion? What is important about the opening stage directions and how can we see these points develop throughout the play? What has Priestley achieved?

WRITE ONE THING: On the post it note – write one thing that you think you will struggle to write about confidently / in detail in your exam. Language? – closely explaining the word and sentence level meaning? Language? – closely explaining the word and sentence level meaning? Structure? – how the play’s structure lends itself to meaning and Priestley’s purpose? Structure? – how the play’s structure lends itself to meaning and Priestley’s purpose? Form? – Writing about plays in general? How are stage directions useful to us? How does the form the play has taken inform us of Priestley’s intentions? (Genre?) Form? – Writing about plays in general? How are stage directions useful to us? How does the form the play has taken inform us of Priestley’s intentions? (Genre?) Characters? – writing about how characters are a method of meaning? Characters? – writing about how characters are a method of meaning? Anything else? Themes? Quotations? Introductions? Conclusions? Linking points? Understanding the question? Anything else? Themes? Quotations? Introductions? Conclusions? Linking points? Understanding the question?