Social responsibility — An Inspector Calls — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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.
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.
