 Hello and welcome back to yet another GCSE revision lesson. Now for those of you who are watching this and you're currently near 11, you already know that the English literature paper one exam is done, but of course you should be well in the process of preparing for the upcoming literature paper two exams that take place next Wednesday morning. Now, this video will be going over how you can write a grade nine character response on inspector calls and more specifically let's say if the character question that came up was on inspector go I will show you firstly how easy he is as a character to write about but equally what you can write in your grade nine response that includes relevant quotations, context and themes. Now let's quickly talk about the literature paper two exams. Remember when it comes to inspector calls you always get a choice of two questions. You get a theme question and a character question and in this lesson I'm going to be going over what you can include in a grade nine character response. If you go for the character question, let's say if inspector call comes up. Okay. And guys, by the way, this Sunday, Mr. Sales and I will be releasing our predictions for an inspector calls. Okay. So let's go over how to write about inspector goals character. He hasn't come up. He only came up, I believe in the 2017 exam and he hasn't come up since as a character question. Okay. So he's arguably a very strong contender for the character question. Now, when you think about inspector goal, he's a pivotal character. He serves as pre Sleaze mouthpiece. So when you are writing about him, let's say he's the character that comes up in the final exams in your introduction and your opening thesis statement. This is what you can talk about and what you can write about in your grade nine response on inspector goals character. Remember firstly that inspector goal is presented by priestly as an omniscient figure. Omniscient means God like everywhere, all at once. Okay. So he's an omniscient figure who is a catalyst for change. In other words, inspector goal, his appearance suddenly triggers the Berlings to change. Also the character name inspector. Okay. Remember a character name is basically a name within a character that indicates something about who they are or indicates a distinctive quality about them. Okay. So pre sees is this character name inspector within the name inspector goal to tell us that he will inspect the Berlings and unveil troubling secrets. And of course, by extension, what the inspector is doing is he is also inspecting priestly's audience. Okay. So priestly's upper middle class and upper class audience and also making them reflect on their actions, making them reflect on their greed and also making them wonder if I carry on the way I'm carrying on. Will we still continue to sow the seeds of instability in British society that might lead us into the third world war? Remember that inspector calls was initially released as a play in 1945. Britain had gone through two very destabilizing wars and priestly was basically saying, look, if you don't change, we might well see a third world war. The other thing to include in your thesis statement, if you're writing about inspector goals character is his surname. Okay. So you're really going for gold when you're talking about firstly the correct name inspector, but also the word goal because a surname goal suggests to us that he has supernatural qualities. And of course, this also illustrates how he's priestly's mouthpiece. Okay. He's kind of this God, much like priestly, who knows everything about all of the characters, but these supernatural qualities are what going to trigger change within the Berlin characters. And finally, as I've mentioned, not only is he priestly's mouthpiece, but he has a socialist message that he wants to impart to the play's audience. Okay. So remember, in your thesis statement, make sure you mentioned that inspector goal is an omniscient figure who serves as a catalyst for change. And the correct name inspector tells us he will inspect the Berlings and unveil troubling secrets. Not only is he a supernatural figure as shown through his surname goal, but of course, he serves as priestly's mouthpiece in order to give us a socialist message for change and how Britain can stabilize only if it becomes socialist and shifts away from its capitalist underpinnings and its capitalist views. Your first grade nine paragraph relating to inspector goal is firstly, make sure you make the point that he is a mysterious supernatural character who unveil, as I've mentioned, the secrets of the upper classes. So not only does he unveil all of these secrets that the upper classes have and more specifically people like Gerald and the Berlings, but by extension, the audience who are watching this, the people who end of the Second World War have the means to watch a play tended to be upper class people. Okay. Remember, Britain is fresh out of war. Lots of people are kind of coming out of rationing. Therefore, the people who have the luxury of time, the leisure, but also the money to afford this play are rich audiences. So when the inspector is being presented to them, they also are expected to reflect on their own behavior, much like the way the Berlings and Gerald Croft is meant to reflect on that they are supposed to reflect on their behavior. Now, in terms of the quotations, when you're talking about how he's a mysterious supernatural character who will shatter the Berlings worldview, these are the following quotations to make in your first paragraph. Firstly, remember in the same directions were told that he speaks carefully. Again, here, he's been presented as almost this godlike figure. And then also the surname Gore is really, really powerful because this suggests his supernatural character. He also foreshadows the fact that he's going to disappear almost like a ghost. And the quotation young woman, as well as the quote, lonely half starved and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths. Once more, what he is doing for the Berlings and by extension, pre-sees audience is he showing them the really horrible and disconcerting realities that many people in the working class faced, especially when they were not being paid equally, they were not giving any kind of support in case they fell into homelessness. And so the worldview of pre-sees audience is shattered when they see this character of Eva Smith. Okay. And of course, in terms of context for this opening point, when you're thinking about how is a supernatural character who shatters the Berlings worldviews, mentioned contextually, this illustrates pre-sees criticisms of the deep class divisions that existed in Edwardian society. Remember that the inspector is basically critiquing all the class divisions that happened and the deep divide between the few upper classes in Edwardian society who basically held vast resources. And they were totally oblivious to the suffering that the majority working class people faced. And this is shown, of course, through the shock that the Berlings experience when they learned that Eva Smith was lonely and half starved. That's your first grade nine point. Of course, the second point you can talk about when you're writing about inspector Gaul's character is that he is used as the embodiment of socialism. Now this paragraph, you should try to juxtapose inspector Gaul with Mr. Berling because he is a foil to the capitalist beliefs of Mr. Berling. The idea of a foil comes from drama and theater. A foil is basically a character that's used to show the shortcomings and the flaws of another character. Inspector Gaul being a socialist who believes in a more equal society highlights the flaws in Mr. Berling's selfish capitalist worldview. Also make sure that the inspector to talk about how the fact that the inspector shows how the upper classes were very out of touch, they were myopic. But also they sowed the seeds of instability by continuing their behavior towards the poor. Okay, so people like Mr. Berling, who were employers, factory owners, they didn't pay the workers enough to even live on, right? What this did is it sowed seeds of instability that created an unstable society. Okay, so I think in this paragraph, what would be really powerful is when you juxtapose inspector Gaul as this person who's very socially conscious, he also represents pre-sees socialist ideals with Mr. Berling. And the quotations which you can use to juxtapose the characters is how the inspector says to Mr. Berling that public men have ellipses responsibilities. And this is in contrast to Mr. Berling's selfish capitalist worldviews, where he said that it's his duty to keep labor costs down. Okay, so juxtaposing that showing how on the one hand, inspector Gaul is quite selfless. And he also believes in the equality held in socialist principles in contrast to Mr. Berling's greed. The second juxtaposition and the second set of quotes you can use to juxtapose the two characters is how on the one hand, inspector Gaul believes that we're all members of one body. In contrast to Mr. Berling is very individualist because he's only thinking about his quote to knighthood. And of course, also, we can see his selfishness in his individualism when he says the Titanic absolutely unsinkable. Okay, so this quote to this second paragraph would be really powerful if you juxtapose how inspector Gaul is used as a foil to Mr. Berling. And of course, can texture you want to tie into pre-sees himself being a socialist and his socialist message, both to the audience who are watching this play at the time post 1945, the Second World War has just ended, but also by extension, the British government, of course, also the other contextual factor is to do with the two wars that Britain would have been through when this play was released. Remember, you had the First World War that occurred between 1914 and 1918. The play is set two years before that war. And of course, when the play is actually released, it's in 1945 after the Second World War, which started in 1939 and ended in 1945. Precy is basically saying, look, if we don't change and if we don't adopt a more socialist principle in our country, we're only going to have more wars. That's your second grade nine paragraph on Inspector Gaul. The third you finishing off strong. You want to now think about how he impacts Sheila and Eric because you can argue that Inspector Gaul empowers the younger generation to drive social change. Remember, precy felt that the older generation, they're almost done, right? So, you know, society won't change. They really have a lot to gain from keeping society the same, whilst actually he had a lot of hope in the younger generation to drive change. So the Inspector empowers the younger generation. And this is shown through how he inspires Eric and Sheila to transform society. Now, what we can see here, and especially the quotations that illustrate this is firstly, we can see that he really empowers Sheila. Okay, so he tells Sheila Berling's dad, Mr. Berling, that your daughter isn't living on the moon. What does this illustrate? This illustrates that Inspector Gaul really sees the younger generation as a catalyst for change, not only towards social equality, but also feminist change. Remember that, of course, this play is set in a time when women did not have equal rights. Remember women only got the right to vote in 1918. So also precy has a very strong feminist message in his play. Equally, when you're thinking about tying it to how Eric changes and also how Sheila changes, Inspector Gaul says this to Sheila, but you can also arguably say that he just broadly mentioned this to the younger generation. Use the power you had. Of course, he says this to Sheila directly to criticise how she had either fired from Millward's, but more broadly actually he's speaking to both of them. They use the power that they had as children of upper middle class people in order to abuse people like Eva. Of course, you want to juxtapose how his, the way he speaks to the younger generation, sparks him to change because Sheila says, I started it. She takes a lot of social responsibility and equally, Eric also agrees, you lot maybe letting yourself out nicely, but I can't. Now here, this paragraph tried to make it a theme paragraph and this is tied to the theme of age and more specifically when you're writing about the theme of age. Remember that what precy was trying to illustrate through this theme is that the younger generation would be the ones that would drive social change. They had a lot to benefit from society becoming more equal, but equally, precy had very, very little hope in the older generation, i.e. Mr. and Mrs. Burling for driving social change. His optimism is emphasised through how the inspector inspires both Sheila and Eric to change and of course, what this is illustrating is precy's message that it's the younger generation who are going to drive Britain to change towards being an equal society. So guys, I hope that helped. If you decide to go for the character question and if the character that comes up is Inspector Gore, I feel lucky. There's a really, really strong possibility that Inspector Gore will come up. So this is the grade nine response that you can write and also guys, what I've included in the description box is literally a free download link. If you wanted to have slightly more information on context themes, also a free model response, look at that link, download it and hopefully that will help you towards your GCSEs. So guys, there's going to be an inspector called a GCSE prediction video coming out on Sunday. If you've also found this video helpful, let me know and I'm more than happy to do some grade nine paragraph examples for the rest of the characters within the play. Thanks so much guys for listening.