Priestley had witnessed the horrific events of both wars and realized the people in upper classes were still snobby and pessimistic when it came to changing their views in the class system. In creating Sheila's character, Priestley was hoping the audience would take on board his powerful message. Priestley uses a range of interesting techniques in order to present Sheila's change, the most obvious methods he uses is language techniques to convey certain messages. At the beginning of the play, Sheila is presented as a stereotypical middle class young woman - immature and spoilt. Priestley brings this out through Sheila's character through her childish language such as "I'm sorry Daddy and "go on Mummy".
Passion outweighs reason at every point and Shakespeare wants to highlight the young love in this masculine society as well as show it is the men that cause conflict and a world of hate. Therefore, the audience feels a bond for the characters- especially Romeo and Juliet due to pity and admiration, and Piggy, Simon and Ralph as they are the targets of this boisterous, savage
Later in the novel, we learn of Heathcliff’s childhood and his struggles with Hindly as well as love for Catherine. Because of Hindly’s harshness the audience is able to feel sympathy for Heathcliff. And again when Earnshaw, Heathcliff’s adopted father passes. The more negative side of Heathcliff’s character comes out when Catherine becomes engaged to Edgar Linton. In an attempt to get back at Hindly for his cruelty Heathcliff purposely lends him money so that he will fall deeper into dept, because of his alcoholism.
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.
She looks down on most people and expects the Inspector to treat her with the upmost respect she often treats the Inspector as inferior. Sheila the young pretty daughter, she is for filling her father’s dream of becoming upper-class by marrying an upper-class man Gerald. She is deeply affected by Eva Smith’s death she is initially very naive to suggest that someone can drink disinfectant by accident “Oh- how horrible! Was it an accident?” however later on she shows her own jealousy and bad temper causing Eva Smith to lose he jobs but she always accepts responsibility this reflects Priestley’s faith in the new generation that it will be filled with young socialist caring people who work
By using characters such as the Birlings and Eva Smith Priestley implies that social class had a vast impact in the play. Throughout the play J B Priestley demonstrates just how unaware Upper classes were to how easy their lives were. Mr Birling a strong headed capitalist displays clear views on social class ‘as if we were all mixed up in a hive’. He dismisses any chance that people of different classes should converge. Priestley presents us with the idea that Mr Birling was disgusted with such an idea.
The Judges in The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe are considered villains because of how they torture innocent civilians. Okeke is the least villainous, the H-G men are the middle villainous, and the Judges are the most villainous from the three chosen stories. In the story Marriage is a private Affair Okeke is the villain because he treats his son unfairly. For example, when Okeke heard the news of his son’s marriage with a girl he did
An Inspector Calls- Act 1 What do we learn about the Birlings family In Act 1? During Act 1 the audience are acknowledged of the arrogance, vanity and carelessness of Gerald Croft and two members of the Birling family: Sheila and Arthur Birling. Their upper middle-class status is portrayed right from the beginning of the play; firstly through the presence of parlour maid Edna, present only to meet the needs of the Birling family, who Priestley not only uses to symbolize people of a lower class and the way in which they are used by the higher class to fulfil their own requirements but uses her presence in itself to indicate that the status of the Birling family are high enough to have a parlour maid. Mrs Birling explains to Edna that she will ‘ring from the drawing room’ when they ‘want coffee’ clearly expressing the purpose of Edna only to be someone to meet their needs. When the Inspector rings the doorbell later on in act one, Mr Birling is quick to say ‘Edna’ll answer it’ yet again expressing his higher status and control over her; her being a symbol of those lower in class.
Priestley uses a variety of techniques such as structure, characterisation and irony effectively to reveal the stupidity of some groups in society and to convey his opinions on responsibility. "An Inspector Calls" is about a very well off family called The Birlings who are thought very highly of in society. The family is made up of Mr and Mrs Birling and their children Eric and Sheila. They are
J.B. Priestly who wrote the play was highly Socialist and is therefore heavily weighted in favour of the Inspector, and making the Birlings appear the “bad guys.” At the very start of the play, the audience gets the sense that, although the Birlings are well off, they are distant and cold, with husband and wife sitting at opposite ends of the table rather than next to each other. The lighting too, at first is described as “pink and intimate” which shows a “warm” and “joyful” atmosphere. However there is always an uneasy feeling that the audience gets, that the lighting is just a screen which hides the truth. This is confirmed when the Inspector arrives, and the set changes to a “brighter and harder light,” which gives a sense of disclosure and the impending revelation of truth. This makes it seem like Socialism is an honest way to live.