Social responsibility — An Inspector Calls — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Social responsibility
Themes
What you need to know
How Priestley explores social responsibility and Priestley's socialist message 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: 'a man has to make his own way', 'like bees in a hive', 'But these girls aren't cheap labour', 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility.', 'We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.', 'fire and blood and anguish'.
Context: Priestley's socialism, the 1945 election and the welfare state.
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.
