hello and welcome back to yet another GCSE revision lesson now what I wanted to do within this lesson is to show you all the context theme and character quotes to remember when it comes to an inspector called so let's say you have maybe not been the best student throughout this year your exams are fast approaching and you're thinking oh actually um what course do I need to remember what context points do I need to remember then you're going to have it all here but equally if you've been the model student right you've got all of these notes all of these things that you have really prepared but maybe you're drowning in information what this video is going to be really useful for is to show you when you take a step back here are the most essential context theme and quotes to remember if you forget everything during your exam when you're sitting for an inspector calls okay and this is also by the way useful regardless of your syllabus okay this is just basically related to the play itself however if you're sitting AQA IGCSE at Excel this is still useful and equally relevant let's begin by talking about the top five context points to remember when it comes to An Inspector Calls if you forget everything else remember these five context points number one remember that Priestly was a socialist he wrote the space to criticize the capitalist Edwardian system at the time the second context point to remember is the lack of Rights women had during this time this cuts across class boundaries both upper middle class upper class women had also just as few rights as working class women okay they needed the protection of marriage of a husband to guarantee some kind of stability for them also women at this time did not get equal pay okay remember that women only received the rights to vote in 1918 so Priestly is also criticizing this through using all of the female characters in the play to illustrate this lack of rights that women had the third context point to remember is that Edwardian England so when this play is set is the Edwardian era it was a time of deep class divisions okay Priestly wanted to highlight how a few upper um plus and also upper middle class people had disproportionate and vast power which they used to exploit the working classes the next context point the fourth context point is this prevailing View and this idea of the undeserving pool this is the idea that a lot of upper class people held that the poor somehow were undeserving of Aid and charity because they somehow were maybe immoral and they put themselves in that position where they were in poverty and in need they saw them as the undeserving poor okay and the fifth and final context points remember is that this place set just before the start of World War One it said in 1912 and World War one begins in 1914 and it ends in 1918 okay this player was trying to highlight that you know an audience Society had the seeds of instability which inevitably led to the first world war breaking out those are the main context points if you forget everything with context make sure you just literally remember those okay those five context points let's now move on to themes in terms of themes these are the four main themes to remember for an inspector called starting off with class this idea that preci is trying to illustrate especially through the sympathetic characters of both Eva and Daisy Smith the Deep class divisions that existed in Edwardian England and how people like Mr Burling abuse the power equally of course all the burlings abuse their power and their abuse their privilege as part of the upper middle class Society but of course also Gerald being part of upper class Edwardian England he also abused his power okay so Priestly wants to illustrate this through the theme of plos the second theme is the theme of age remember that Priestly was very pessimistic when he considered the older generation okay preci felt that changed social change towards equality was actually going to be driven by the younger generation that's why by the end of the play there's a split there's this divide between Miss and Mrs Berlin who don't want to see any change they rigidly stick to the old values okay and they want Society say the same versus Eric and Sheila who want to change they symbolize the Young Generation who are most likely to inspire change the third theme is to do with social responsibility remember one of the core messages of an inspector called is prisci wanted to illustrate especially to his wealthier viewers okay his wealthier people in the audience that they had a duty it was a duty it wasn't a choice it was this social responsibility and their duty to use their money and their resources to help the poor okay to pay them more equally to also help them with Charities and so on it was their social responsibility not a choice a duty the fourth key thing to remember is that of gender again remember that priest you wanted to use the female characters Sheila Mrs Burling Daisy and Eva to illustrate the Deep divisions and the lack of power that existed when it came to women who were abused and mistreated versus men okay remember even you know the most obvious victim is Eva and Daisy um Renton okay so she is mistreated or they are mistreated both by Eric Gerald and so on however don't forget that even Sheila Burling who isn't part of the same cloth she's not working class okay she's upper middle class but actually she's also mistreated by Gerald Croft okay so of course this theme is used by preci to criticize the mistreatment of women and the lack of power that they had it overlaps really nicely with this context Point relating to women's rights that's all you need to remember when it comes to themes and of course context but let's now look at Key quotations if you forget everything if you're really hazy you're like okay I literally don't know where to start when memorizing quotations these are the three main quotations per character for all the main characters in the play and I'm gonna go in the order with which inspector Gore questions each member of the Berling family he starts off with Mr Burling then he moves on to Sheila then he moves on to Gerald Croft then Mrs Burling and Eric Burling okay he literally questions them in that order so I'm going to show you the quotations the three top quotations to remember for each character taken from the beginning middle and end okay the first quotation to remember when it comes to Mr belly's character is when he says the Titanic Ellipsis Unsinkable okay so when he's saying this this use of hyperbole hair what this is illustrating is how out of touch he is with Society he's completely out of touch we'll call him myopic okay obviously what this is illustrating is Mr Belling literally had no clue he had these rose scented glasses and he didn't realize all the unhappiness in the working classes the second quotation for Mr belling's character is when he says it's my duty to keep labor costs down and he calls Eva labor he dehumanizes her again what this is illustrating is how a lot of businessmen at the time mistreated and abused and also exploited them workers the third and final quotations remember for Mr belling's character is at the end when he can see that Sheila and Eric wanted to change he mocks them he shows that he doesn't want to see any form of change because he mocks him and says the famous younger generation who know it all okay what this is illustrating Mr Berlin does not want to change and he refuses to change even by the end of the play the second obviously key character is Sheila Burling the first quotation to remember for her character is when she criticizes her father she says These Girls Aren't cheap play but we can see here that she actually she is quite Humane okay so even if she's a little bit selfish even at the beginning she's you know a little bit airheaded actually we can see that she sympathizes even from the start with the issues faced by working class women the second quotation of course is once she realizes the role she played in Eva's death after she had a fight in millwards she actually openly admits I started it that's really important because it's illustrating that she takes social responsibility the third and final quotation is um when she tells her family there's nothing to be sorry for nothing to learn here we can see that she is utterly disgusted at the behavior of Gerald as well as Mr and Mrs Burling at the fact that they are celebrating they're so happy oh the inspector doesn't exist we can get away with it scot-free whilst she says no I want to change my attitude and my approach to Working Class People the next character is of course Gerald Croft he's the one that has the affair with Daisy Renton okay and obviously Daisy actually quite likes him now the first quotation which illustrates that Gerald is actually a very duplicitous character and he kind of sees himself as above other people and especially when even he's talking to the inspector he says we're respectable citizens and not criminals now here this is deeply ironic because actually the way he treated women like Daisy we could classify it as immoral and even perhaps criminal okay so this is obviously very deeply ironic the second quotation relation to Gerald's character is when he admits he actually really liked the power that he had over Daisy when she was his mistress just because he says that he became the most important person in her life he really liked the power that he wielded over her before he just threw her away the final quotation which shows that Gerald actually is totally remorseless by the end of the play is when he asks after he goes off finds out that the inspector is not real he comes back and then Sheila and Erica say no no but you know we still need to change and he says you know what girl and then he mentions four or five different girls here we can see Gerald is incredibly dismissive he doesn't really care about uh Daisy Renton and the issues that she faced all he cares about is protecting himself so he's quite a hypocrite the next character of course is Mrs burning and again she is quite hypocritical remember when you're writing about Mrs Bunning if you decide to talk about her as a character she is far more loyal to her class than her gender this is Illustrated firstly when she says and calls women like Daisy girls of that class this even the fact that she uses this diminutive noun girls shows that she looks down on women like Daisy she sees them as somehow immoral and somehow being part of the undeserving porn the immoral individuals the next quotation related to Mrs benning's character is when she justifies refusing help to Daisy as she'd impersonately made use of our name we can see her that she wants to always distance herself from working class women the third quotation with Mrs Berlin's character is at the end of the play when she criticizes Sheila and Eric for wanting to change because she says you might be wanting to help him instead of us she uses this pronoun us to illustrate that she sees the inspector and Working Class People as Outsiders the next character of course is Eric Burling who at the beginning is described as half shy and half assertive I think that's really interesting and kind of really encapsulating his character how he's very withdrawn but also very secretive the next quote relating to Eric's character is when he admits that he raped Daisy and he even says I don't remember Ellipsis that's the hellish thing okay what this illustrates is how intensely selfish he was however the final quotation which shows that he changed was when he says you know what maybe you've let yourself loves that nicely but I can't and his use of um when he says you lot which is basically in formal language here we can even see through his language that he's actually a bit of an outsider okay he doesn't speak as proper and as Posh as someone like Gerald Croft already we can see he's an outsider but also he thinks like an outsider meaning he can maybe see things from an inspector's perspective the final quotations to remember of course relate to inspector Gould's character when he first says a young woman died Ellipsis she was in great Agony remember that he serves as a mouthpiece for women like Eva Smith and Daisy Renton this is what illustrate this is what you can talk about that's Illustrated in this quotation the next quotation relation to inspector Gore is when he tells Mr Burling public men ellipses have responsibilities again this is part of precy's message about people who have lots of power having a social responsibility a duty to help the poor and the third and final quotation relating to inspectable's character this is now the message that he wants to impart not only to the bellings but to us as the audience he says that millions and millions and millions of Eva Smith in and John Smith's they represent you know the poor people out there that really need our help and it's our duty to help them out okay so if you find yourself in a position where you're really really stuck maybe you're drowning in notes or maybe you have no notes related to inspector chords these are all the main context theme and quotations that you need to remember for the final exam and guys I have literally created a free um PDF file which you can download kind of having all of this mind map summarized okay so if you wanted to have something that's really Nifty and easy to use literally just click on the download link and you can get it for free okay so guys thank you so much for watching and I hope you found this useful