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[ClashwithJarvis]

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Edit: I cooked how about u guys?

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[heizou]

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(thanks again for the poetry guidance)

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[pasgh]

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EDIT THIS CAME UP LMAO Inspector Calls 18/05/2024 Predictions
Thesis
Priestleys point of view: trying to promote socialism to recommend that we need social responsibility to look after the working classes, we need to stop exploiting women. This is not just an anti capatilist play its also an anti war play
MR BIRLING – “a man has to look after himself and his family “ – Priestley is trying to show there Is no social responsibility, there is no such thing as wider responsibility there is only personal responsibility. These words lead to the inspector coming because like an incantation they summon the Inspector, Inspector interrupts Birling at the time he is saying that. This is priestleys way of showing a supernatural reaction of berlings selfishness and rejection of social responsibility. This is a supernatural element of inspector
“They’re not cheap labour they’re people” – reinforces the idea of social responsibility and socialism. Priestley chooses all the victims in this play to be female – main victim is Eva and Sheila – she discovers geralds affair and confronts him. Geralds perspective goes against this because he wants greater profit
7 deadly sins – jealous. Inspector points out to Sheila that she had eva sacked because she was jealous. Here priestley points out a feminine message because Sheila says she couldn’t feel sorry for her and the girl can look after her self. This means that patriacharal society values a woman appearance as their most important quality. Also eva was looking better than Sheila so it justifies that fact the Sheila was jealous. Priestleys wider message is Sheilas cruelty is because she was taught by society that the most important thing about being a woman is about appearance. Priestleys wants to go against that through exploring it through Sheila so her transformation through the play helps priestley to explore the inner lives of women and priestly is calling for a more feminine society. This gives us a contrast to Gerald as he is an antithesis to Sheila, he is described as a “prince” because he helped Sheila and eva to get out of trouble.
“Prince” (Gerald) – we see him as a Machiavellian figure – Gerald had affair with eva and exploited her and used her for money and treated her like nothing.
Initially, Sheila's description of Gerald as a "wonderful fairy prince" might suggest her immature and romanticized view of him, believing he acted nobly in helping Daisy Renton when she was in trouble. However, Priestley uses this metaphor to highlight the facade of Gerald’s supposed generosity. Gerald's actions are far from princely when scrutinized closely. Priestley presents Gerald as someone who sees himself as a savior by installing Daisy in "a nice little set of rooms, " providing her with money and affection. This arrangement, however, is predicated on his power and control over her. Gerald's justification of his actions paints him as a magnanimous figure, yet his true motives are far more self-serving. The rooms, given to him by a friend who went to Canada, were a convenient way for Gerald to keep Daisy without significant personal expense. His claim of helping her is undercut by his eventual decision to end the affair and abandon her when his friend returns, revealing his unwillingness to continue supporting her once it became inconvenient. This cynical view is deepened when considering the parallel to Machiavelli's "The Prince." Gerald's actions, like those of a Machiavellian figure, are calculated and manipulative. He exploits Daisy's vulnerable situation for his own pleasure, and when the arrangement no longer suits him, he discards her. This manipulation is compounded by the fact that Daisy may have been in love with him, making his exploitation even more reprehensible. Gerald’s readiness to use and dispose of Daisy when it is no longer convenient showcases his moral bankruptcy. Priestley’s portrayal of Gerald through the “fairy prince” metaphor serves as a powerful critique of the superficial morality of the upper classes. Gerald’s actions are not those of a hero, but rather of a man exploiting his position of power for personal gain. Through this ironic metaphor, Priestley encourages the audience to be critical of appearances and to question the true nature of seemingly noble acts
“CHAP EASILY TURNS NASTY” (eric) – he says how he was in a bad state doing nasty stuff which is a euphemism for the sexual violence that he is threatening Eva with. Here eric is lustful and violent. Priestley is trying to say upper class men and their natural exploitation of people through people through capitalism that leads to the men thinking its appropriate to exploit the powerless which are women and they are great victims. Priestley puts the blame on the 2 men.
“girls of that class” (mrs birling) – “shows how prejudiced she is against the working classes and also against her own sex. She could have gave eva money but she decided not to so that may be the reason why eva committed suicide. Gerald doesn’t say anything which makes him support the class system. He doesn’t seem to be fussed about the hierarchy in society. He cares about power and money and power over women. Priestley is trying to say that if the class system gets removed the generation wont get better because people have to have social responsibility and people have to stop exploiting women

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[kaela]

a slightly closer look into sheila's progression: she does learn the inspector's lesson at a surface level, and is definitely the greatest hope in the room, even taking on the inspector's role when he leaves ("the point is, you don't seem to have learned anything"). however, her character development throughout the play is slow and is NOT a full 180 (in my opinion). as the play progresses, she does change her perspective a little, realising for example that what she did was wrong and that she ought to take social responsibility, but ultimately continues to view the world through her own sheila-esque lens. yes, the language she starts to use different language for her parents ("mummy" and "daddy" to "mother" etc) and towards gerald ("you were the wonderful fairy prince" "you're forgetting i'm supposed to be engaged to the hero of (the story)" etc), but ultimately at the end she STILL diffuses social responsibility ("between us, WE drove that girl to (suicide)") and her own language and reactions don't actually change (i.e. she describes eva's death as "horrible" at the beginning AND further on; her initial reaction to the inspector's confrontation is to cry and at the END when he reminds them, she cries again), which suggests that, even if her eyes have been opened to the people around her, she perhaps hasn't quite connected this to greater society, and her understanding of social responsibility/upper class abuse of the lower classes isn't actually all that changed.

on the ring: apart from the obvious symbolism, i agree that the ending of the play is very telling and that she is likely forced at some point to accept it. not only is priestly pointing out that women don't have the power to change a patriarchal society because men don't allow them social power, i think that this is also a comment on individuality: priestly is calling EVERYONE to action because no one person can change society all on their own (and so the ending of this play is actually quite depressing, as one might expect from a cautionary tale, which AIC arguably is as well as a morality play).

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[kaela]

for the first quote, you can dive in even deeper on mr b - he starts with "a man" (i.e. men have to be the breadwinners -> patriarchy), which demonstrates that he perpetuates patriarchal ideals, and this can be linked to his wanting to marry sheila off (patriarchal control) and treating her marriage as a business transaction (capitalism) even though this is obviously bad for her because of gerald (so capitalism and patriarchy are linked within mr birling's character and wider society, and both are detrimental to the individual members of society)

[rocketfuelwithagun]

sir I know you didnt get the prediction right but in the exam i remembered your video and how macbeth chooses to send the letter rather than tell LM herself to show he might have been actually manipulating her himself (and therefore shes not a powerful woman) and i think it really fit into my essay!

[texanspell]

prediction was correct for the inspector coming up as the theme question 🙏 single handedly saved my english literature grade with your jekyll and hyde AND macbeth videos. if you don’t see this sir i just wanna say thank you for saving thousands of people’s grades

[Hangryhooman]

Mr Salles! You should become a fortune teller because I did English Lit Paper 1 today on An Inspector Calls and your predictions were SPOT ON!! GERALD CAME UP! I was so happy and I absolutely smashed the exam thanks to YOU!! I did not even revise Gerald until you predicted it, so THANK YOU :> KEEP COOKING IN YOUR VIDEOS, ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!

[MH-zzso]

Welcome to another Top Grades video made easy. Today I am cooking up an essay plan which is going to fit every question that comes up in the exam. Prepare to be amazed. So in 2024 my prediction is that you will always get a theme question. Obviously you do. If you study the inspector that will be easy to fit to any theme question and the character is most likely to be Gerald. It's got about a 50% chance of coming up I reckon. I'm going to show you how this plan will fit not just a question on the inspector, not just a question on Gerald, but every single question. We dive in with the thesis statement. This is where you say what Priestley's point of view is. So he's writing the play to promote socialism, to recommend that we need social responsibility to look after the working classes and we need to stop exploiting women and then finally this is also not just an anti-capitalist play it is an anti-war play. You might not have been taught that but it will all become clear and by the way just pick the ideas that make sense to you. So in at number one the most important moment at the beginning of the play is when Birling says a man has to look after himself and his family. His point is there's no such thing as wider society, there is no social responsibility, there is only personal responsibility. The words that he says immediately lead to the doorbell ringing because like an incantation they summon the inspector. He arrives exactly and in fact interrupts what Birling is saying. This is Priestley's way of showing a kind of supernatural reaction to Birling's selfishness and rejection of social responsibility and so his words act as a kind of spell that summon the ghoul. So you can introduce that supernatural element there if you want to or simply take the inspector as a real person with no supernatural connotations. It's up to you. Right then we have the discussion of how Eva was sacked. Now the most important part of that discussion is that Eric and Sheila immediately reject Birling's position but Gerald, who Sheila is going to marry, doesn't. She says they're not cheap labour, they're people. Obviously this reinforces the message of social responsibility and socialism but they're also real people but women. Priestley deliberately chooses all the victims in this play to be female. The main victim obviously is Eva but we can also look at Mrs. Birling as a victim of her husband because he's clearly had affairs in the past and most obviously Sheila. She discovers Gerald's affair, she confronts him with it but at the end will that be enough? We'll see when we get to number nine. Right at number three we need something to introduce the play as a morality tale. So in morality plays actors didn't play real people, they played constructs who represented the sins or the virtues. The seven deadly sins you'll be familiar with, one of them is jealousy and the inspector points out to Sheila that she had Eva sacked because she was jealous. Now yes that's one of the deadly sins but Priestley uses it to reinforce a feminist message because Sheila says she couldn't feel sorry for her and that the girl could look after herself. What she means is patriarchal society values a woman's appearance as their most important quality and because Eva is better looking than Sheila, in Sheila's eyes, then that justifies herjealousy in getting her sacked and also justifies her thinking well she's lost a job but she'll get another one or she'll find a nice man and get married and that's what society rewards. I don't feel guilty. The inspector confronts her with that guilt but Priestley's wider message is that Sheila's cruelty is not just because she's upper-class; it's because she's been taught by society that the most important thing about being a woman is your appearance. Priestley wants to go against that; he explores that through Sheila. So her transformation through the play is a way of him exploring the inner lives of women and calling for a more feminist society. This gives us a contrast to Gerald who is, if you like, an antithesis to Sheila. She describes him as seeing himself as a prince because he has rescued Eva Daisy when she appeared to be in trouble. However, Priestley is kind of unpicking this as a facade. Gerald sees himself as the prince who installs her in a nice little set of rooms, is the quote, and gives her money, affection, and then after a few months bids her goodbye. However, Priestley lays the ground for us being much more cynical about this prince. We see him as a Machiavellian figure. Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince and as exploiting her. How do we know? Well, he had these keys to a set of rooms. Why? Well, his friend went off to Canada and said, "I've got this nice little set of rooms; why don't you put a woman in there, have some fun while I'm away?" Also, when he comes back, Gerald gets rid of Eva, says, "No, my friend's come back; we can't have the flat anymore, " but what he really means is, "Ah, I'm not willing to pay for you to stay anywhere." So the relationship I have with you and the way I'm sexually exploiting you isn't even worth the money I would pay in rent of some rooms for you. So he completely uses her and gets her financially on the cheap, and he confesses that she was probably in love with him, and so that makes his exploitation even worse. That's why I hate Gerald. Now we come to Eric. The crucial quote is that he says, "I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty." We've got all this kind of language where I was in a state where a chap nasty; these are all euphemisms for the sexual violence that he's threatening Eva with, but he doesn't voice it because he doesn't want to admit to himself what a horrible human being he is. Now we've had two exploitative males: one Machiavellian, one much more lustful and violent. What's Priestley saying? He's saying that it is upper-class men and their natural exploitation of people through capitalism that leads them also to think it is appropriate to naturally exploit the powerless. Those with least power in society are women, and therefore they are the greater victims. So I think Priestley puts most blame on these two men much more than Burling, much more than Mrs. Burling. Another clue to that is Eva's method of suicide, which I won't go into here, but if you think about it, it shows you how horrified she is about what Eric has done to her, and that's why she wants to destroy herself in that particular way. Now we come to girls of that class. My favorite quote for Mrs. Burling because it shows how prejudiced she is against the working classes and also against her own sex. She belittles Eva as a mere girl even though she's pregnant when she visits her. This allows Mrs. Burling to deny Eva charity without feeling any guilt. Mrs. Burling never admits any guilt; she just says, "I did nothing wrong." So many people see this as the worstbecause she was the one who had the opportunity to save Eva by giving her money. I personally don't see that, because Eva could have accepted money from Eric. She just chose to turn him down because he was stealing it from his father's business. So we can't really argue that Eva wants to kill herself because she doesn't want to accept stolen money. That just isn't logical. There are much deeper psychological reasons and they are how she has been exploited. Mrs. Burling is cruel, but she doesn't actually exploit Eva. Of course you don't need to share my view about Mrs. Burling here. You can argue that she is the very worst character, because she was the last port of call and if she had given Eva money the tragedy might not have happened. Go ahead and argue that. I just personally don't. Now we come to the inspector's most important and final words where he talks about the millions of Evas and the millions of John Smiths. And if men will not learn that lesson they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. It's men again. So again a feminist text that's saying the people who need to change are the men because men have power in this patriarchal society. Therefore they are the ones who can change society. So that is going to give us an important interpretation of the ending when we get to number nine. Because although Sheila learns the inspector's lesson, does she have the power to change society when she's only, I say only, in terms of patriarchal terms a woman who is denied power. The words fire and blood and anguish are not just about the factories and the workplace and people going on strike. No, they're much more specific and they're warning us against coming war. So here you can explore the setting of 1912 just before the first world war and also the irony that the audience have just lived through the second world war and therefore have war at the forefront of their mind. Priestley's argument is that capitalism leads to war. So a little history for you here. Who makes the most money out of war? The factory owners. They are the ones who produce the raw materials and the products that are necessary in the war. This was a big deal at the time because the first world war had made lots of families and lots of businesses uber rich. Birling's business and Croft's business would have done exactly the same. Now you don't have to explain all that in your essay, you will just reference it as capitalist exploitation of prices and products during the war meant that they profiteered from the first world war and the second world war and therefore capitalists approved of war because it led to greater profits. Boom, that's my sentence done. That is Priestley's point of view and that's what he's warning the audience of. You've lived through two world wars, do you want to live through a third? I hope not. The way out of it is to develop social responsibility, vote for a socialist government, everything will be fine.