 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 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 all actually what course do I need to remember what context points do I need to remember? Then you're gonna 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 a QA I GCSE 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 priestie 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 right to vote in 1918 so precy is also Criticizing this through using all of the female characters and the play to illustrate this lack of rights that women had The third context point to remember is that Edwardian England so when this pay is set is the Edwardian era It was a time of deep class divisions, okay Priestley wanted to highlight how a few upper and class 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 poor 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 point to remember is that this play is set just before the start of World War one It's set in 1912 and World War one begins in 1914 and it ends in 1918 okay, this play was trying to highlight that you know Edwardian 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 There's 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 pre-C 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. Berling abused the power equally of course all the Berlings abused their power and they abused the 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 pre-C wants to illustrate this through the theme of class the second theme is the theme of age Remember that pre-C was very pessimistic when he considered the older generation Okay, pre-C felt that change social change towards equality was actually going to be driven by the younger generation That's what by the end of the play There's a split there's this divide between miss and mrs. Berling who don't want to see any change They rigidly stick to the old values Okay, and the one society to 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 calls is pre-C 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 the 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 theme to remember is that of gender again Remember that pre-C wanted to use the female characters Sheila mrs. Berling 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 even Daisy Renton, okay, so she is mistreated or they are mistreated both by Eric Gerald and so on however Don't forget that even Sheila Berling who isn't part of the same class. 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 pre-C 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 goh Questions each member of the Berling family. He starts off with mr. Berling then he moves on to Sheila Then he moves on to Gerald Croft then mrs. Berling and Eric Berling, okay? He literally questions them in that order, so I'm gonna show you the quotations The three top quotations to remember for each character taken from the beginning middle and end, okay? The first quotations remember when it comes to mr. Berling's character is when he says the Titanic ellipsis Unsinkable, okay, so when he's saying this this use of hyperbole here What this is illustrating is how out of touch he is with society's completely out of touch would call him myopic Okay, obviously what this is illustrating is mr. Berling literally had no clue He had these rose-tinted glasses and he didn't realize all the unhappiness in the working classes The second quotation for mr. Berling's character is when he says it's my duty to keep labor costs down and he calls Eva Labor he dehumanizes her again Well, this is illustrating is how a lot of businessmen at the time mistreated and abused and also exploited the workers The third and final quotations remember for mr. Berling's character is at the end when he can see that Sheila and Eric wants to change he mocks them He shows that he doesn't want to see any form of change because he mocks them and says the famous young Generation who know it all okay? Well, this is illustrating mr. Berling does not want to change and he refuses to change even by the end of the play The second obviously key character is Sheila Berling the first quotation to remember for her character is when she criticizes her father She says these girls aren't cheap labor. 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 air-headed 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 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. Mrs. Berling and the fact that they are celebrating this so happy all the inspector doesn't exist We can get away with it scot-free whilst she says no I want to change my attitude and on my approach to working-class people the next character is of course Gerald craft He's the one that has that 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 relating to Gerald's character is when he admits He actually really liked the power that he had over Daisy when she was his mistress 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 inspectors not rule he comes back and then Sheila and Erica saying no 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 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. Burling and again She's quite hypocritical remember when you're writing about mrs. Burling if you decide to talk about her as a character She's 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 for the immoral individuals The next quotation related to mrs. Burling's character is when she justifies refusing help to Daisy as she'd Impersonately made use of our name. We can see here that she wants to always distance herself from working-class women The third quotation with mrs. Burling'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 in 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, maybe you've let yourself that nicely But I can't and his use of when he says you lot which is basically informal 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 in his 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 Gaul'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 illustrated. This is what you can talk about. That's illustrated in this quotation The next quotation relating to inspector Gaul is when he tells Mr. Burling public men ellipsis have responsibilities again This is part of preseason 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 inspector Gaul's character This is now the message that he wants to impart not only to the burlings But to us as the audience he says the millions and millions and millions of Eva Smith and John Smiths 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 Gaul's 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 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 for free. Okay, so guys, thank you so much for watching And I hope you found this useful