The scene starts off with Benvolio’s warning of a ‘brawl’ as the ‘hot’ weather is the ‘mad blood stirring.’ This warns the audience that something bad is about to happen. This creates anticipation . The audience should be well aware by then, that Benvolio is a nervous character, who can always predict when trouble is brewing. Mercutio ignores Benvolio’s warning. He starts teasing and provoking him, using puns and alliterations, like “ as soon moved to be moody and as soon moody to be moved.” This amuses Benvolio.
The well-known play ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B. Priestly is said to be a progression from ignorance to knowledge. This progression from ignorance to knowledge is not only for the characters, but for the audience as well. The Inspector brings about this knowledge by tactfully making the characters confess to the sins of their past. The characters begin being ignorant and soon learn that they should be more socially responsible and have more consideration for other people. The audience are encouraged to think deeper about the story and work out what lies beyond the plot.
While talking about his wife and females he talks as if he is irritated and excited. For example, he uses just periods when talking about himself, but when he talks about his wife he uses exclamation marks and capitalization plus he is extra humorous comical. Like, when he tries to get her attention via the “Universal Husband Jingling Method” which is to jingle your keys. It’ll upset his wife and make her think, “Why is he JINGLING already? We have TONS of time!” Aside from Dave Barry’s tone, he uses hyperboles to exaggerate how much time it takes for his wife to get ready.
“We hear a sharp ring of a doorbell.” The doorbell sound is sharp and cutting and silences Mr Birling’s speech, just as Priestly plans to silence his views. The “sharp” doorbell should shock the audience and they should stand to attention as they would want to know what’s about to happen, the doorbell could also relate to the sharp tongue of the inspector. I believe that Mr birling and the inspector show the most contrast between characters in the play. The inspector on one hand stands for socialism, having a social and moral compass, taking responsibility for others and sharing wealth, while Mr Birling shows capitalism which is to look after yourself and to not take any responsibility. Through the play the Inspector/Priestly tries to change Mr Birling/the audience’s minds about how they should treat others.
In 1946, Priestley put pen to page and began to write a very important and meaningful play, ‘An Inspector Calls’. He set it in 1912 to give himself a very clever advantage over his very naïve characters, and a strong persuasive hold on his future audience too. His characters were completely oblivious to the two devastating world wars ahead, where as the audience were not, which cleverly creates strong dramatic irony that brings the play to life. He embedded himself into the play by becoming the character of spooky inspector Goole, giving him the ability to warn the audience through the play, at the same time as cautioning the characters. Priestley was desperate for the audience take the precious opportunity they had and stop the wars, and look back at the catastrophe they had caused not to long ago.
He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habbit of looking hard at the person he adresses before actually speaking" This continues the idea of how the Inspector has a large affect on people and shows how he is going to interogate each family member later on in the play. This is an effective description as it conveys how Inspector Goole can be rather intimidating in the way he looks and addresses the characters in the
However as he works with the patients, he develops a new perspective and insight into certain matters and himself. When Nick and Lucy denounce him for doing a play about love, by declaring that ‘only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity’, Lewis is able to realise that love and friendship is more important than politics. He learns about the importance of friendship, clearly evident, that he attends the moratorium, helping the patients prepare for their performance with an additional rehearsal. Lewis also finds strength later in the play, which he was devoid of to begin with . At the start, he is overwhelmed by the patients such as Cherry, Doug and Roy by their 'crazy' behaviour.
'An Inspector Calls' is a play about power and responsibility. Priestley uses the characters to show the audience about how they uses they're responsibility, especially on Inspector Goole's character who I believe Priestley created him to influence the audience through this character. Priestley sets the scene with in the Birling household of a rich family who are very self-satisfied and ignorant sitting at the table discussing about the future. Priestley describe Mr Birling a 'heavy-looking, rather portentous man with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech''. Priestley uses a lot of dramatic irony to create suspense to the audience.
Explore the ways in which J. B. Priestly presents the change and development of the character of Sheila during Act One of “An Inspector Calls”. Priestly uses Sheila as a device in his play to convey a message about society, class, relationship and the changes of roles of women at the time. Priestly wrote this play in 1945, but set the play in 1912. Doing this is important to a modern audience as the play includes hints about future events that are unknown to the characters, so the hints are meant for the modern audience as they have prior knowledge that the characters do not have.
Similarly John Lee Hancock’s film “The Blind Side” depicts the differences in social classes, the opportunity of choice and accentuates the power of education. These ideas are conveyed through juxtaposition, cinematography and mise-enscene elements. ! When venturing into new environments, individuals are exposed to new opportunities and challenges that enforce change and growth within their lives. In Educating Rita the two protagonists Rita and Frank undergo a transformation process as they experience transitions into new phases of life and social context.