Writer's methods — An Inspector Calls — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Writer's methods
Writer's methods
What you need to know
How Priestley's dramatic methods create meaning: the well-made play and the 'whodunnit' structure, dramatic irony, stage directions
and lighting, entrances and exits, the Inspector as a dramatic device, and cliffhangers at the end of each act.
Key moments: the Inspector's entrance ('massiveness, solidity and purposefulness'), his 'One person and one line of inquiry at a time', his final speech ('millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths') and the final telephone call.
Form: the well-made play turned on its own audience, the morality play (Everyman, and the seven deadly sins as one reading), and Priestley's time plays; lighting from 'pink and intimate' to 'brighter and harder'; and the Inspector's name.
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.
