...In this essay I am going to be exploring the role and function of the inspector in “An Inspector Calls“. I am going to break down his role in the play, explore his effects on the other characters and analyse his stage presence and also show his intention in coming to the Birling household. I am also going to express whether I think, in the play, the inspector is supposed to be a real person or something other. When exploring the effects that the inspector has on the other characters I will describe the characters personalities and characteristics before the inspector arrives, and then after, once the moral has been introduced, to then find out whether they have engaged in becoming a better person or not. The social and historical perspective of the play is very important as it was written in 1945 and set in 1912. There are lots of events that happened between those times that the audience would have known at the time. Most of these are mentioned by the deluded Mr Birling, who says facts that the audience know not to be true, but he says them in such a confident, superior manner that it makes the audience dislike him. He says things such as “just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two, or a few German officers have too much to drink and begin talking nonsense. The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war, except some half-civilised folk in the Balkans. And why? There’s too much at stake these days. Everything to lose, and nothing to gain by war”. Even when Eric, who...
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...Inspector Goole has an incredibly important role in ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B. Priestly. He is a persistent person with a strong character which allows him to take control of all of the actions of the other characters and the development of the play. Firstly, the Inspector is clearly important because his name is in the title. ‘An Inspector Calls’. Only the most important of character have their names in the title of the play. Priestly wishes to convey the importance of the Inspector before the play has begun. The Inspector arrives in the middle of Birling’s speech in the first Act. He informs the Birlings that a girl called Eva Smith has committed suicide. He says Eva’s diary names members of the Birling family. ‘A girl has died in the infirmary’. Suddenly the whole story changes, from it being a joyful celebration of an engagement into an interrogation. This shows his importance because he has changed the mood of the whole house simply by entering. The Inspector, when interrogating Sheila, makes her feel guilty by repeating everything for more emphases ‘You used the power you had to punish a girl just because she made you feel like that’ Sheila admits that she only conspired to get Eva fired because she was a ‘pretty working-class woman’. The Inspector has made Sheila confess that she has a jealous and spiteful side. The Inspector therefore was important in this instance because he made Sheila reveal a part of her character and forced her into recognising the error of...
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...'Inspector Goole is little more than a staging device to explore the sins of the major characters.' Discuss the role of the Inspector in the play. Is he more than just a staging device? Below is a possible answer to this question. It is not a model answer, and has several things wrong with it, but it would achieve a grade A if it was entered as a piece of English literature coursework. Read through the answer and see if you can understand why it should gain an A. Here are the criteria it needs to match: • sustained knowledge of text • structured response to task • personal involvement/empathy • appropriate comment on meaning/style • effective use of reference/supporting textual detail Specific criteria for 20th Century drama: • explore dramatic effects of character and action • use detail to explore effects of dramatic devices and structures • explore relevance of aspects of the social/historical setting of text Response Describing Inspector Goole as a staging device implies that he is not a character in his own right but exists simply as a way of exploring the personalities and lives of other, more fully rounded, characters. Whilst it is true that An Inspector Calls would not work without Inspector Goole's central role, it reduces him a little to call him 'just' a staging device. In order to understand the full significance of Inspector Goole, it is worth exploring how his primary role works and then looking at what further significance...
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...Describe the importance of Sheila's role in the play An inspector calls. Extracts from this document... Introduction Describe the importance of Sheila's role in the play.-Michael Rowell At the beginning Sheila was not one of the main characters as Birling takes centre stage. Setting on the play seemed revolved around the characters. The older furniture in the living room matched the aging and upper class type that is Birling. During the play Sheila is the only concerned and totally serious character to the situation. There are some well linked scenes in the play setting a mood for Sheila with the marriage, her husband to be Gerald. The pink light in the house makes Shila feel more relaxed as the set looks almost like a love scene. During the play, Sheila is the main link between the Inspector and the Audience. She constantly changes and develops as the Story is told. ...read more. Middle This sudden chance in language implicates how her attitude in the play is changing to a more mean and ruthless in her anguish towards their casual behaviour. The Inspector is a Catalyst in the character and emotions of Sheila, on impact hitting the house hold with shame. She is the most interested of people asking everyone what exactly they did, just like a second inspector who wants to put together the whole picture for the audience. Other example of this role is like when she spoke to Gerald. "What about this girl?" Her role is to be the girl that needs to know everything and gets the...
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...character of Sheila Birling is changed by the Inspector’s visit. (400 words) Written in 1945, An Inspector calls was set to be in 1912 by J.B Priestly who was born in 1894. J.B Priestly wanted to show people how life was like when class divisions looked down on each other and how politics played a big role in the society. In Act I, Sheila Birling was celebrating her engagement to Gerald Croft over a dinner with her family. She was portrayed as a young and attractive pretty lady in her early twenties who very was pleased and contented with life. Also, the attention she got from her important engagement gave her great pleasure and it somewhat puts her under the impression of being self-centered. She thus starts playing the role as someone whom may be regarded as superficial. However, this changes in Act II after the Inspector’s visit when she finds out that Gerald had cheated on her and the possibility of her involvement in Eva Smith’s death. She is shown to be more caring and sensitive and is also remorse about the fact that it was her who caused Eva to lose her job at the shop. In this act, she also loses her faith and happiness in her family as she is very distressed about Eva Smith’s suicide and their new found potential part in it as well as how unacceptable and badly her parents are reacting to it and the Inspector. Her reaction towards the sudden news of the Inspector is also one of the very few encouraging things to come out as she gets genuinely upset over Eva Smith’s...
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...seen as a foolish, immature young man in his interactions with other characters early in the play, we have learnt that he has been a steady drinker for two years and that he is treated childlike, for example, Mrs Birling assumes that Eric and his sister are tired because he is apart of the younger generation although he is old enough to be responsible for his actions. In Act Three the Inspector questions Eric, and when the truth comes out about Eric’s role of Eva Smith’s death he acts as if their relationship was brief and the fact that she became pregnant seemed a childish game by describing her as a 'a good sport'. He does, however, offer her money but Eva declined his offer when she found out the money had been stolen from his fathers factory which tells us although she had little in life she was not prepared to take things from other people. Despite being one of two characters who tries to help Eva, the other guests turn on Eric, even his father-'You're the one I blame for this’. Eric was shocked that the household hadn’t absorbed the message communicated to them by the inexplicable Inspector Goole as himself and Sheila were not so easily swayed towards Mr Birling, Mrs Birling and Gerald’s theory as they still should feel responsible for the disastrous incidents that escalated from a chain of events for this girl to end her life. Eric learned from the experience - 'It's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters.’ Even though they weren’t certain...
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...Understanding Discipline in the Uniformed Public Services P1 – Explain the need for and the role of discipline in the uniformed public services Discipline is setting rules for people to follow, this is usually in the workplace or in an organisation. Once these rules are broken, then discipline would be carried out. This is punishing someone in the consequences of their actions. Examples of discipline would be during an induction to a job in the Police. The new employee will be verbally informed or handed information in the form of a guide. This is to outline their job and what is expected of them as a responsible employee, as well as the consequences they would face following breaking the disciplinary guidelines which they are set. It is...
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...Matter of Auer v. Dressler Brief Facts: The President of R. Hoe & Co, Inc., refused to call a special meeting requested by Petitioners, class A stockholders. The trial court granted the mandamus to compel the special meeting Rule of Law: Class A stockholders have a right to call a special meeting to be heard on their disproval of management decisions, to elect and remove directors and to amend bylaws. Facts: Petitioners submitted a written request for a special meeting of class A stockholders to R. Hoe’s & Co., Inc.’s President, as permitted under the company’s bylaws. After the President failed to call a special meeting, Petitioners brought this present proceeding to compel it.The President claims that he failed to call a class A stockholder’s special meeting because the demand for the meeting was made by more than class A stockholders and none of the purposes given by Petitioners were proper grounds to call such a meeting. Petitioner’s primary purpose was to endorse and reinstate the former President, to hear charges against four of the class A directors, to remove them if the charges were proven, and to amend the by-laws so that the successor directors be elected by the class A stockholders and to require and that an effective quorum of directors be made up of no fewer than half of the directors in office and no fewer than one third of the whole authorized number of directors. The trial court granted the mandamus to compel the special meeting for the purposes...
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...Eliot Cholerton-Hill 11SZT English ZKH - Classwork 29/04/2016 An Inspector Calls Mock Exam 1. How does JB Priestley create mood and atmosphere for an audience here? JB Priestley creates mood and atmosphere through a variety of literary techniques, used throughout the extract. The stage directions on the first line state that Birling speaks to Gerald 'confidentially' which suggests that he lowers his tone, and is about to say something shocking. For the audience, having Mr Birling lower his voice, and speak to Gerald in a confidential manner creates a tense mood and atmosphere, as the audience feel that they are being privy to something that should be contempt from knowing. The fact that Mr Birling speaks to Gerald in a confidential manner shows the audience that he is trying to be dissumulative from the women in the household, which in turn creates a tense mood and atmosphere. A few lines down, this tense mood and atmoshphere is reinforced when Mr Birling blatently belittles Gerald and undermines his social standing. He informs Gerald that his mother, "Lady Croft", feels that Gerald has, "done better for himself socially." We know that Gerald feels embarassed by this, as the stage directions state that Gerald feels "RATHER EMBARRASSED". The reaction from the audience at this point in the play would be one of sympathy for Gerald and contempt for Mr Birling, which will be further reinforced later on in Mr Birlings speech, when he states that he is recieving "just a knighthood...
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...The first scene unethical behaviour in fil dil hai tumhara is when Shalu has determined that she is in need of employment, and got a job with Khanna Industries, with a fair amount of false information. Khanna Industries is a factory that processes an apple to a drink juices which call “Refresh”. The day that Shalu want to apply for a job, the company is on a strike. At that time, Shalu came without an appointment to Khanna Industries and there are two managers (Roopchand and Koopchand) of the company are waiting for food inspector to do the food inspection of the company. The managers are thinking that Shalu is the new food inspector for the company. The managers said that Mr Bandhduhi (the old food inspector) only doing the food inspection only once a month. Mr Bandduhi just ignore if there is embezzlement in the company. Shalu said that she will do better than Mr Bandduhi. Shalu ask the managers (Roopchand and Koopchand) how much the company will pay for her. The managers said that they will pay for 10 000 rupee every month. Shalu accept the money but suddenly the receptionist call the managers said that she is not the food inspector. At the end, Shalu was employed in the company because it sounded manager wanted to make something bad to the company and Shalu lie to the managers that she have a good relationship with Mr Khanna which is the CEO of Khanna Industries. She blackmails the managers to tell to Mr Khanna. After that, the managers hired her to work in the company. ...
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...near the town of Centralia, Illinois. This tragic event bought the concern of mine safety and health concerns, which both were results in an explosion when an under burdened shot or blown-out shot ignited coal dust which 111 of the 142 men were killed. After the event many still question who could be blamed for this tragic event and how this tragic event could have been prevented. The Centralia Mine opened in 1907 and remained free of fatal accidents for decades (.www.city.centralia.il.us) This is the same mine that during World War II, provided coal to the war effort. By the 1940’s the mine that was once free of all issues began to have concerns surface. The mine inspectors began reporting excessive coal dust in the mines and also provided recommendations to rectify the issue. Driscoll Scanlan was the inspector of the district that included Centralia Mine No. 5 at this time. Scanlan was also familiar with the mine environment due to the fact that was a former miner. Scanlan inspected the mine every 3 months. Each time he reported the severity of the coal dust buildup in the mine. Although Scanlan inspected the mine several times in the years before the explosion and documentation that was made concerned many due to the issues that he found in his through inspections. Due to all of the errors Scanlan found during his many investigations he was forced to speak with Prudent, the director of state mining board. Scanlan suggested that he shut down the mine for good or cleans it...
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...Ofsted safeguarding policy and procedures |This document outlines Ofsted’s policy on responding to concerns regarding the safeguarding and protection of children and young people | |aged under 18 years. This policy, combined with the associated procedures, provides guidance to all staff who may come across concerns of| |this nature within the context of their work for Ofsted. | Age group: All Published: September 2010 Reference no: 100183 Contents Part 1. Safeguarding children and young people policy 4 Purpose of this document 4 The definition of safeguarding 5 Aims and objectives of the policy 6 Ofsted’s responsibilities 6 Future action 8 Part 2. Procedures for responding to specific child protection concerns about children at risk of significant harm 8 Section 1. Scope of the procedure 8 Section 2. Immediate action to take if, as a member of Ofsted staff, you observe abuse while it is taking place 10 Section 3. Immediate action to take if you receive an allegation of possible significant harm to a child or young person 11 Section 4. Identification of level of concern and next steps 13 Section 5. Subsequent action in all cases 14 Section 6. National Business Unit, CIE staff, and the Ofsted complaints team 15 Section 7. Allegations about a member of Ofsted staff 16 Section 8. Concerns arising during registration 16 Part 3. Safeguarding...
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...a) Alice’s perceptions of the world, as she is coming of age, make her idiosyncratic. Many of her features on how she comes to the understanding of the world are charming and eccentric. An example of this, is her discovering how the reality of the world is quite different from the books she reads. Before her father’s death, where she was isolated from the outside world, she had a keen interest in fairytales. When she encounters the mine inspector, it made her “inflations feel all warm, and my thighs too, because the power of magic connects those parts” (Soucy 54). Thus, she falls in love with him and calls him “the prince”, as the mine inspector is an educated benevolent man who owns a motorcycle that resembles a cavalier (Soucy 53). This event...
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... ❖ Introduction ❖ Meaning of Police ❖ Definition of police ❖ Bangladesh Police ❖ History of Bangladesh Police ❖ Laws Governing the Bangladesh Police ❖ Organisation of Bangladesh Police ❖ Strength ❖ Community Policing in Bangladesh ❖ Women in Bangladesh Police ❖ Selection and Training ❖ Vehicles used by Bangladesh Police ❖ Actual Scene of BD police ❖ Weapons ❖ Contribution to UN Peace Keeping Operations ❖ Powers as a Police Officer ❖ Role, Functions and Duties of the Police in General ❖ Preventive Action of the Police Recent Highlights in Bangladesh ❖ Emergency and national security laws ❖ Corruption and Transparency ❖ Overview of arbitrary detention practices around Asia ❖ Failing justice systems and lack of democratic space ❖ Conclusion Introduction: The police have a vital role to play in maintaining internal law and order and establishing the rule of law in the country. For controlling the law and order situation, tackling the ever-increasing sophisticated crimes, arresting the spread of drugs and narcotics, and punishing heinous crimes like murder, rape, smugging, hijacking, abduction, smuggling, acid-throwing, and violence on women and children, the need for the police force is indeed very great. Yet, society at large has a negative conception of the...
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...The first job and probably the most important job was the Inspector. The inspector’s job according to Doc 1, was to conduct face to face interviews with all immigrants in a crucial proceeding known as immigrant inspection. Every passenger was required to go through inspection. If they decided not to, they would not enter the U.S. The inspector usually worked in the Registry Room on Ellis Island. The next position on Ellis Island that was important to the well being of the group was the Clerk. Due to the vast amount of paperwork that came through Ellis Island, only a clerk would be able to challenge the piles of important immigration papers lying around. “The clerks - both male and female - kept a running tabulation of the number of immigrants flowing to the island for inspection each day, the disposal of their cases and their subsequent departures.” (Doc 1)....
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