An Inspector Calls - Themes
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- An Inspector Calls: Themes
- Responsibility
- Idea of taking the punishment for your action
- Eric does
- Idea of everyone looking out for each other
- Eric and Sheila begin to accept the idea
- The Birling parents constantly refuse the idea
- Idea of taking the punishment for your action
- Generations: Young vs Old
- older generations are the Birling parents
- The Birling parents constantly refuse the idea
- refuse the idea of change and responsibility
- prejudices are so ingrained that its too late to change
- younger generations are Sheila, Eric and Gerald
- Accept the ideas of change and responsibility
- hope that the future generations will create a more equal society
- Priestley's hopes
- hope that the future generations will create a more equal society
- Accept the ideas of change and responsibility
- older generations are the Birling parents
- Love and lust
- Lust: Eric towards Eva Smith
- Family love amongst the Birlings
- Universal love (between everyone)
- Romantic love: Sheila and Gerald
- Equal society
- Audience shown rich way of life through the Birling family
- contrast
- accounts of desperate workers
- way of life working class women had to live
- contrast
- Inspector encourages the idea of community
- Eric and Sheila accept it
- Accept the ideas of change and responsibility
- hope that the future generations will create a more equal society
- Priestley's hopes
- hope that the future generations will create a more equal society
- Accept the ideas of change and responsibility
- Their parents refuse community
- "community and all that nonsense"
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- Eric and Sheila accept it
- Audience shown rich way of life through the Birling family
- Responsibility
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