Gender — An Inspector Calls — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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.
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.
