The Inspector — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
The Inspector
Characters
What you need to know
How Priestley presents The Inspector, and how the character develops across the text: his authority, methods and message.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'massiveness, solidity and purposefulness', 'One person and one line of inquiry at a time', 'Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges', 'We often do on the young ones', 'taking charge, masterfully', 'But just remember this', 'We are responsible for each other', 'fire and blood and anguish'.
Readings of the Inspector: Priestley's mouthpiece, a conscience, a ghost (Goole), or a figure outside time.
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.
