Summary Grade 9 GCSE English notes - An Inspector Calls
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An Inspector Calls
GRADE 9 NOTES AND ESSAY PLANS - These took many hours to create and they got me a grade 9 in English literature
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Themes covered: Mrs Birling; Mr Birling; Sheila Birling; Eric Birling; and Inspector Goole.
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AQA GCSE English Literature An Inspector Calls Grade 9 Key Points & Analysis
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AIC: Eric Analysis
Eric in the beginning of the play:
• “In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.”
(theme of reputation)
• ‘In his early twenties’ • ‘Shy’ connotes apprehension and nervousness. This juxtaposes with the
suggests that Eric is still implications of dominance from the adjective ‘assertive’. This contrast can
young and will inevitably create a sense of complexity/discombobulation for an audience, which helps
develop, which is seen to foreshadow his secretiveness.
by the end of the play. • The use of an asyndeton creates a sense of overwhelming.
Mentioning his young • The repetition of the adjective ‘half’ implies Eric has not fully realised his
age before describing his personality and is immature. This perhaps represents how Eric was abandoned
personality can perhaps and stripped of parental love. There is a sense that Eric’s behaviour is a
act as justification for his consequence of a deficit of parental love because his bourgeois parents
heinous behaviour. cherish materialism and climbing up the social stratum and thus neglect the
emotional well-being of their children. Priestley is perhaps criticising this
common capitalist occurrence, compelling an audience to adopt socialist
values.
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