Age and generations — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Age and generations
Themes
What you need to know
How Priestley explores the difference between the older and younger generations 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: 'the famous younger generation who know it all', 'We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable.', 'It frightens me the way you talk', 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble', 'I suppose we're all nice people now', 'In the morning they'll be as amused as we are'.
Why Priestley places his hope in the young, and where Gerald stands.
Eduqas's essay on this text marks your response and your analysis of language, form and structure, not context: use context only where it helps an interpretation, and treat the printed extract as a starting point for an essay on the whole play.
