The Inspector — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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.
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.
