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.
OCR's question on this text has two parts on the same text. Part (a), 20 marks, compares a printed extract from it with an unseen extract of the same genre, and weights your response (AO1) and context (AO3) twice as heavily as language analysis (AO2), where context means the social and cultural situations you can infer from the two extracts and their introductions; an answer on only one of the two extracts cannot go above Level 3. Part (b), 20 marks, explores another moment in the same text from memory, with response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2) equally weighted and no marks for context. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the part it is for.
