Be relentlessly clear. All good writing instruction repeats this refrain: Show, don’t tell. In other words, illustrate your points with specifics. Example: You want to say someone in your company is a bad boss. Rather than making that general statement, say something like, “He got a promotion based on his assistant’s detailed reports, but then—despite the company’s record profits—denied that assistant even routine cost-of-living raises.” 6.
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly Act 1 * Priestly uses lots of stage directions to set the scene. These express the family’s wealth and prosperity as shown by their evening dress, furniture and items at the table. * Mr Birling is described as being portentous, meaning he may not be as upper class as the setting suggests. His speech is not of someone who has a high social status.
In the very early of the play Mr birling is giving a speech on his very strong capitalist views and whilst he giving it he also makes confident predictions about there not being a war and is excited about the sailing of The Titanic: famously, the ship sank on her maiden voyage This device is known as dramatic irony, when the audience knows something the characters in the play don’t. the affect it has on the audience is that it keeps them in suspense but also making it humorous so the audience is drawn in and it also This puts the audience at an advantage over the characters and makes us more
Mr Birling is shown to be an arrogant and confident character. With his first line in the extract given he shows a very careless and selfish attitude with the statement 'I discharged her'. Birling gives a cold attitude towards Eva Smith's life and shows that he doesn't care for her, giving himself a more noticeable selfish attitude. Birling decides to not use her name and constantly regards her as 'girl' and the fact he has to think about her time at his business shows that she wasn't important enough to him, and shows that he thinks workers and people below him don't deserve to be called by their names. Birling tries to intimidate Inspector Goole by boasting about his status and the type of people he knows, for example when Birling mentions the engagement between Sheila and Gerald Croft - a name made famous by 'Croft's limited', Birling brings this up to intimate the Inspector as Birling expects his status to buy him away from trouble and put him above the law.
In response, Priestley uses satire when the Inspector responds by saying: "After all, it's better to ask for the Earth than to take it." This tells the audience that Priestley is using Birling to represent a greedy capitalist who just wants to take everything for himself and not share his resources. As a socialist, Priestly would criticise this. As the play was written in 1945, three years before the development of he health service and after the Second World War, there was more equality and fairness within society, so Birling would be seen as quite old-fashioned and narrow minded. In addition, Sheila appears to be heavily influence by the way her parents behave.
Imediantly showing Mr Birling’s personality, which is selfish. Then he goes on and saying, “There isn’t a chance of war” this dramamtic irony leads the audience into looking forward to seeing Mr Birling being prove wrong. In addition, this shows Mr Birling’s thoughts on responsibilities are wrong. Saying this, the sudeience should not agree with him and his thoughts on responsibilies due to the examples of dramatic irony. After he had finished his speech on keeping labour cost down and profit high, Inspector Goole enters and throws a shocking news at the Birlings.
The audience realize what Birling doesn’t - things are changing. Old Birling thinks his capitalist kind will rule society forever, he speaks of ’The Titanic -unsinkable’ and also says there won’t be a war, A few German officers talking nonsense. This is prophetic irony as the audience see a character wrongly predicting the future. The structure of the play is like a classical drama with time, place and action all taking place at once, easy for Priestley to get his manage across to the audience. The setting of act one is deliberately rich and luxuries with Author Birling, Sybil Birling, Sheila Birling, Eric Birling and Gerald Croft, all sat round the table and then there’s a nock at he door.
Were there’s were in first rate condition. Furthermore how I mentioned early how Mickey would slouch casting the effect of an unmannered man and maybe not as well cared for. Whilst on the other hand Edward stood always erect giving a positive and confident effect. In addition throughout the play the lighting change repeatedly as when it shone on the Johnston’s house it gave a gloomy look, but when it shone on the Lyons house it gave a warming look. I obviously believe this was done intentionally, but with a second purpose.
How does Priestley create drama through the inspector’s entrance and exit? Before the Inspector’s arrival, the atmosphere in the house is happy and jovial, with the Birling family merrily celebrating the engagement of Sheila and Gerald. Priestley is ridiculing the character of Mr Birling, exposing his foolishness. Birling’s world is built on unstable foundations; the things he holds to be irrefutable facts are misconceptions. By setting the play in early 1912, just before the notorious Titanic tragedy, Priestley is able to show Birling as the complacent fool he is: ‘I say there isn’t a chance of war...the Titanic – she sails next week...and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable...
The minimum wage is a form of coercion in which it forced employers to hire at an arbitrary price that otherwise wouldn't be used if not for the government's intervention. The minimum wage causes a few detrimental effects. By raising the minimum wage the employer would either have to fire workers because they cannot keep up with the wages or raise the prices of their products which don’t benefit the so called 99%. Another point is that there doesn't need to be a minimum wage because the superseded fear is that businesses will hire at super low wages caused by collusion. Well contrary to this popular belief the real world doesn't work this way at all.