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Sept 17, 2010 6:46:12 GMT -5
Post by sir on Sept 17, 2010 6:46:12 GMT -5
Write your improved paragraphs here, and add comments on other people's.
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Sept 17, 2010 12:02:57 GMT -5
Post by katiedouel on Sept 17, 2010 12:02:57 GMT -5
Mr Birling is not a nice man at all. He treats people around him, people that are lower than him, people with hardly any money like Eva Smith disrespectfully. He doesn't even respect his own family with respect, for example his daughter Sheila. Sheila is going through the same siduation as himself and feels that she is to blame too, unlike Mr Birling that thinks it's got nothing to do with him. Going through this siduation all together as a family, you would of thought that they would all help and understand eachother, but Mr Birling doesn't do this, he acts in a ill mannered way by telling Sheila 'You'd better keep quiet'. This is only because she is concerned. This would make the audience dislike him even more because of the way he treats his own family. This would make the audience feel that he doesn't help anyone even his own family.
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Sept 19, 2010 5:26:56 GMT -5
Post by louiskeane on Sept 19, 2010 5:26:56 GMT -5
Gerald speaks in a very hypocritical way in this extract. He also is a very rude and selfish individual " Thanks you're going to be a big help"in this extract he takes everything for granted and cares only about getting out of the situation. The audience will be shocked by this especially because he is talking to his fiance in this way.Gerald Carry's on to speak in a ill mannered way " He's a notorious womanizer as well as being one of the worst sots and rogues in Brumley"-this is shows again how hypocritical Gerald is turning out to be and the audience will feel less likely to trust him throughout the play.
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Sept 19, 2010 6:04:46 GMT -5
Post by catherine on Sept 19, 2010 6:04:46 GMT -5
Mr Birling develops an aggressive manner towards the rest of the family when they attempt to reason with him in this extract. This shows when he "angrily" replies to Sheila's sensible comment. The audience get the feeling that Mr Birling must be quite an unpleasant character and therefore are made to think that all upper class individuals are too. With the audience now thinking this they begin to agree with J.B.Priestley, in that they shouldn’t be in a society ruled by capitalists but socialists instead.
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Sept 19, 2010 6:42:17 GMT -5
Post by connorjones on Sept 19, 2010 6:42:17 GMT -5
When Gerald re-enters the dining room just after the Inspector has left he says; "That man wasn't a police officer." Gerald had been outside for some fresh air and he had come back into the room at a perfect moment to reassure the Birlings that infact this man was a fraud. This instantly changes the mood of the play as the Birlings had just previously been dreading their fate of when they were reported by the Inspector to the police. The audience would be shocked into silence at this very moment, as this one line used by Priestly, is single handedly the most imprtant line of the play. Mr.Birling replies; "What?" This just redefines the importance of the line to not just the audience but to the Birling family as well. The way in which Mr.Birling reacts shows that he was feeling immense pressure from what the Inspector had revealed to him and that his supreme financial posistion within the community was now at risk. J.B. Priestly uses stagecraft very cleverly when Gerald comes back onto set because at the time the atmosphere was building and the audience needed a release of pressure and excitement to relieve them.
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Sept 19, 2010 8:23:17 GMT -5
Post by aimeestokes on Sept 19, 2010 8:23:17 GMT -5
Mr Birling speaks and behaves very different to the other characters in ‘’An Inspector Calls’’. Also throughout the play his behaviour and the way he acts speak toward and around people changes. At the start of ‘’An Inspector Calls’’ Mr Birling is quite dumb and stupid character and says things like ‘’war will never happen’’. Mr Birling also sometime talks in an aggressive manner to the people around with could make people assume he is not a very nice person and hide things.
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Sept 19, 2010 9:02:10 GMT -5
Post by Dave Hill on Sept 19, 2010 9:02:10 GMT -5
When the Inspector leaves and Gerald announced "That man wasn't a real police officer" it would of created a essence of shock through out the audience, being tricked by fake a police inspector may have embarrassed Mr Birling because through out the play he has been built up by Priestley to be a self proud, uppercases snob, this may have been delivered by how he reacted to the news of the fake police officer "By jingo! A fake!".
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Sept 19, 2010 12:45:22 GMT -5
Post by loiscox on Sept 19, 2010 12:45:22 GMT -5
When Gerald reappears, having spoken to a police seargent and finding out that the Inspector is a fake, Mr Birling speaks very selfishly. He says 'you didn't tell him-' In this part of the play the audience can clearly see that Mr Birling is very self centered and worries more about his reputation and kighthood being on the line than facing the bad things him and his family had done. Preistly has done this to show audience members capitalists in a bad light, but also to make them wonder about what goes on out of the public eye in society.
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Sept 19, 2010 14:01:26 GMT -5
Post by jordanallen on Sept 19, 2010 14:01:26 GMT -5
At the beginning of the extract Mr Birling seemed unsettled you can tell this by “yes –well. We’ll have to do something-and get to work quickly too”. Then when Gerald came back in with the news that the inspector was a fake Mr Birling seem to be relieved “by jingo! A fake!”, but he was disbelieving of Gerald because he rang the Chief Constable – Colonel Roberts. After Mr Birling found out there was no inspector Goole at the station he became angry with what the others have said “And you’d better keep quiet anyhow. If that had been a police inspector and he’d heard you confess”.
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Sept 19, 2010 14:47:55 GMT -5
Post by chrispoole on Sept 19, 2010 14:47:55 GMT -5
When talking about why somebody would send a false Inspector to the Birling household, Mr Birling claims that 'There are people in this town who dislike me enough to do that.' This would give the audience the impression that Mr Birling is self obsessed; he believes that he can be the only reason why somebody would do such a thing to his family. Priestley would have chosen to use this statement to increase the audience's negative impression of Mr Birling. The playwright is trying to make the audience's impression of Mr Birling very negative to enforce negative feelings towards capitalism.
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Sept 20, 2010 6:58:36 GMT -5
Post by aaronlattaxox on Sept 20, 2010 6:58:36 GMT -5
On page 62 of an inspector calls, Mr Birling was excited however astounded that the inspector that came round to the Birling's was a fake, ' By Jingo! A fake!' Birling says, here he gives the audience the impression that he was under the impression that the inspector was actually genuie, however after he phoned Colnel roberts he realised he has been conned!
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Sept 20, 2010 7:01:20 GMT -5
Post by joeproll on Sept 20, 2010 7:01:20 GMT -5
On pages 62, 63 and 64 of "An Inspector Calls", Mr Birling speaks in a very selfish manner, totally disrespecting other members of his family, and the Inspector. He is acting very off with everyone and when Sheila says something, he says "If you've nothing more sensible than that to say, Sheila, you'd better keep quiet." This is very insulting to Sheila and it proves he is in a foul mood.
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Sept 20, 2010 7:05:14 GMT -5
Post by lucclode on Sept 20, 2010 7:05:14 GMT -5
On page 62, as Gerald comes back he tells everyone how the Inspector was a fake, Mr Birling seems relieved but still goes on to disrespect the members of his family, and speaks very hypocritical of everyone in the room with him, after Gerald tells him about the news My Birling says " by jingo! A fake, Mr Birling then rings the Cheif Constable- Colonel Roberts which shows that he could have un sure over Geralds news.
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Sept 20, 2010 10:13:06 GMT -5
Post by danihardwidge on Sept 20, 2010 10:13:06 GMT -5
Mr Birling and his family feel that they can not except any responsiblity for Eva Smith death. At one point in the play Mr Birling shouts at Gerald because he is about to say something he will regret.
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Sept 20, 2010 15:26:12 GMT -5
Post by gracee on Sept 20, 2010 15:26:12 GMT -5
Birling tries to use his higher status to take control and rings the police force to double check that the 'inspector Goole' is a fake. I dont think he quiet believed Gerald when he said it. He then goes on to say 'There are people in this town who dislike me enough to do that.' i think Mr Birling understands a lot of people dislike him and think he is self centered and arrogant.
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