Gender — An Inspector Calls — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Gender
Themes
What you need to know
How Priestley explores the treatment of women and attitudes to gender across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'Clothes mean something quite different to a woman', 'Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things', 'the wonderful Fairy Prince', 'Girls of that class', 'She was young and pretty and warm-hearted', 'But these girls aren't cheap labour'.
Context: women without the vote in 1912, and women's war work by 1945.
For Edexcel's essay on this text, link each point to its context and the writer's purpose, which earn as many marks as knowledge of the text (16 of 40); language analysis earns no marks there.
