Priestley uses the play to show his ideas and beliefs on community welfare and outdated principals, he does this in many ways to manipulate his audience against their normal thoughts and behaviour so by the end of the play they see why things need to change. Priestley presents his idea that the concept of self-help is outdated and uses contrast between characters to illustrate this. In an Inspector Calls there is a clear contrast between Mr Birling, a middle class man, and Inspector Goole. The play was set in 1912, where the middle class wouldn’t have respected Goole as he was of the working class and was seen to be below them. Whereas the play was written in 1946 and in 1946 the middle class would have respected the police more as it was seen as a fairly respectable job.
Act 2 Scene 1 is used to be the point of which the issues start to become apparent, with the ensuing psychological and emotional effects on Katherina now she is being subjected to Petruchio entering her life. However, Shakespeare has designed Taming of the Shrew as a comedy, and these issues become an underlying feature, and not the play’s main focus. Act 2 Scene 1 is the first meeting between the two characters and their initial interaction is quite explosive. A social concern that is made clear through the exchange is the lack of respect Petruchio has for Katherina, which is influenced through the fact that the play was written in the time of a Patriarchal society, and women had to get married if they wanted to be respected – even if it meant losing all their finances and belongings to the possession of the husband. Petruchio bombards Katherina with compliments as soon as she walks in such as “bonny Kate”, “prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of Kate-Hall, my super-dainty Kate”, while being consistently referential to Katherina as being his through the use of the possessive pronoun ‘my’, even though at that point, they had barely just met.
Priestley was concerned with the inequality of life – those who had much abusing those who were in their power. How far does the action of this play demonstrate his ideas? In ‘An Inspector Calls’ Sybil Birling is often seen abusing the power she has, especially when she refuses to help Eva Smith by giving her support from her organisation. “(Stung) I didn’t like her manner” shows the audience that Sybil is shocked by the manner of someone who is in a lower class than her. It gives us the impression that Sybil believes people in lower classes than her should talk to her with a better manner than someone of a higher class as Sybil sees herself as more respected than someone of a lower class.
She also has to justify herself in the way a child does when she tells Mr Birling, “I’m sorry Daddy… actually I was listening”, implying that she has the attention span of a little girl because she is treated like one by the people around her. She is also introduced as a typical upper class woman who does not look beyond the mundane in life. Priestley gives evidence of this when Gerald gives Sheila the engagement ring and she says “Now I really feel engaged”. The emphasis on the word “really” signifies her superficial mentality as she truly believes that a mere ring is the confirmation of her engagement. The engagement is not entirely out of the love between Gerald and Sheila but more a marriage of convenience- Mr Birling says in his speech that the union “…has brought [the two companies] together…” Instead of expressing her love, “…she kisses
In Athol Fugard’s, The Island, the oppression of women can be seen by Winston’s dissatisfaction as dressing and playing the role of a woman in a performance for their fellow prisoners. Both of these societies have created the ideal that woman are inferior to men both physical and intellectually, and no man wants to be seen as womanly. In the play The Island, John comes up with the idea for him and Winston to perform the play in front of the other prisoners. John uses his whit to convince Winston into playing the role of Antigone. At first Winston agrees with Antigone’s actions in the play because they are similar to those of his self.
Also, looking at the events that happened throughout the day, Atticus helps her see that it also must be frustrating for Miss Caroline, especially dealing with Burris Ewell using the most profane language known to man, proving that his ability to empathize makes him an influential role model as Scout becomes older. Later on in the story, Jem, Dill and Scout create a game, which after turns into a play called Boo Radley, named after the infamous ‘Boo’ or Arthur Radley himself, and while they are rehearsing this production, Atticus finds out. “’So that was what you were doing, wasn’t it?’ …’ No, putting his life’s story on display for the edification of the neighbourhood’” (65). Atticus can tell that Jem is acting in a play
Each character confesses that they had done something wrong to the girl; contributing to the cause of her death. This splits the characters into groups, due to their opinions and amount of guilt. Some of the groups are: capitalism and socialism, old and young, sympathetic and non-sympathetic and remorseful and remorseless. These groups help the audience to define themselves, hopefully changing them into a socialist; as capitalists are perceived as evil and wrong in the play. Throughout this essay I am going to explore the theme of remorse and how it develops I expect to find that each character’s individual, amount of remorse changes throughout the play.
Each person in the family had abused their position in society and somehow used it to corrupt this young girls mind into making her feel worthless and depressed. The inspector taught the family yet another lesson on what they should do. When he said, “public men have responsibility as well as hit” this quote was the powerful statement that led many people to originally question how much being affluent affects you and what responsibility comes with. It was originally suggested in the stage directions say “the dining room of a fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous manufacturer”, and then continued with the arrogant attitudes of the parents in the Biriling family. Not until nearer the end of the play
My understanding of belonging has been influenced by the way people will act just to fit into society. In the TV series Pretty Little liars the poems “Feliks Skrzyneck” and “ Ancestors” and ______________ it demonstrates belonging by showing the way people will act and the measures they would go to just to “fit in” And the extent they would go to just to ruin other people reputation and lives and relationship just so more people would like them. Pretty little liars The TV Series Pretty Little Liars is a show based on a group of teenage girls who at the start of the series they are all “losers” and don’t exactly fit in with society. Hannah was an overweight young girl and was self-conscious of her-self image. Alison the girl who the story line us based on brings the group of girls together and manipulates them and transforms them into girls who have the potential to be “popular”.
Our intentions were very similar to Berkoff’s as we wanted to show the dehumanising of Gregor and how inconsiderate his family are regarding his situation. We also wanted to portray Gregor’s family’s obsession with finances and them wanting to conform to normality in society. The play was set when there were clear class divisions and being Total Theatre Berkoff was reacting to these relavant issues throughout the play. In this case Berkoff was raecting to class divisions and as well as this genderv