He tries to make them feel guilty by continuously trying to make them see their errors and how they have been forgetting socialism, making them seem selfish and obnoxious. He uses a lot of rhetorical questions to make the characters think about what they have done and probe at the truth. Another way the Inspector is presented is the way Priestley makes him seem so mysterious. At the end of the play, the audience are left not knowing exactly what or who the Inspector was. The Inspector turns up unexpectedly at the beginning of the play and interrupts the Birling family.
He is desperate and perhaps bitter about his situation; this is expressed through his tone and sarcasm. Stanza 1 starts off with ‘Of all the public places, dear to make a scene, I've chosen here.’ The first stanza of “Give” is a rhyming couplet, but Armitage's use of enjambment where the first line runs into the second creates a more unusual effect. The phrase ‘to make a scene’ usually means to have an argument whereas in this case it could literally mean to put on a show.
We learn a lot about the Duke and the way his words are told about him and about others gives the reader negative thoughts towards the Duke. As we read on, it seems as if the Duke is unreliable. He has become very bias and subjective. He called a servant an ‘officious fool’ when he was just doing his duty as a servant. His attitude makes the reader start to question himself/herself and, instead of having sympathy for the Duke, the reader is also pulled to a point where you don’t know whether you should believe him.
Cheever uses a small amount of dialogue with in the story intending on the focus being on the characters actions rather than words. The blatant descriptions of Blake reveal the crudity of his character through his lack of concern for others, repeatedly cheating on his wife, and his tendency to feel superior to others. Often times the three simple words “how are you?” can be the hardest to say. Generally, the question is asked when people have not seen each other for a while and do not have much else to talk about; therefore, the question serves as a conversation filler. Though asking the question may be awkward for either person, it is a polite and courteous thing to do.
Can’t I simply ignore the nuisance? Is it really worth it to emit an ugly sound, which grates on my ears as well, which may distract others from the movie and may distract others from the movie and may draw on my head some physical retaliation against which I am ill-prepared to defend myself, or else some unpleasant curse? Here, the author clearly shows his purpose with his process of telling people to be quiet, but it’s not in a serious tone. He’s telling it with a flare of humor which adds a bit of irony. The author’s arrogant tone is also clearly shown when he was trying to hold himself back from telling the two ladies to stop talking.
He’ll always doubt her, for ever. So far, Iago has given us the idea that he acts only in the rush of revenge and so, that he doesn’t really think through his ideas. The audience doesn’t know if he really has a plan, structured plan but we realise that he thought everything through and that he has quite a sick mind… It seams like he thought exactly what to say and how to say it before his conversation with Othello. We also realise that he predicts what could and could not happen and all his thoughts are resumed to his plan and it’s not totally right to call him “evil” because he’s actually using the truth “And what’s he then that says I play the villain? When this advice is free and honest”.
Check your notes; below is a succinct synopsis of that introductory discussion: “Waiting for Conventions” In Waiting for Godot, Beckett implements broken conventions of traditional theatre in order to successfully satirize the detrimental nature of the human condition symbolized throughout this absurdist play (which seems to have no plot). A certain level of tension is created by this plays lack of plot which leaves the audience expecting something to happen that never comes. This lack of plot to some overshadows the reasoning behind why Beckett does this. Although these broken conventions can act as a looking glass into the true meaning of the play, they require the audience to do a certain amount of searching to crack the nut which is Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot, unlike many plays follows no specific plot, a concept in which most conventional plays ought to have in order to rope in an audience member to the contents and morals of the play.
The Inspector creates a play on the word ‘offence’ – what are the two meanings of the word that become tangled in this Act? 11. Throughout the act, moral judgements are made by the audience and the characters themselves about each other. Who condemns whom here? ‘I think it was cruel and vile’.
Gellburg’s response to Slyvia’s outburst is not evidently displayed through speech, but through the use of Miller’s stage directions: ‘He is stock still; horrified, fearful’. The words ‘horrified’ and ‘fearful’ suggest that the news of such events came as a shock to him and undoubtedly indicate that he is affected by such news and is also stricken by Sylvia’s powerful, unexpected revelation of her feelings. Miller conveys the message that that Gellburg finally comes to understand his ignorant attitude as one that has led to his self-denial and self-hatred. It later becomes clear in the play that Gellburg is suppressing an important part of who he is, and in scene eleven, he confesses to a bottled-up desire of ‘going and sitting in the Schul with the old men and pulling the tallis over my head’. Sylvia, in her frustration with Gellburg, says ‘Don’t sleep with me again’ in a rather commanding manner.
She also used to be a teacher. Vera was a nice person. In the story when Emily Brent tells Vera about how she turned away Beatrice Taylor from coming into her house because Beatrice had an “accident”, Vera was shocked that somebody could do such a thing. The role Vera plays in the story is the 10th little Indian who hangs themselves. She also helped kill the 9th little Indian because she assumed Philip Lombard was the murderer and shot him with his own relover.