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Society Community

Society Community. What do these two terms mean to you? Give a definition for both terms. Lesson Aims. To glean more information about the society in which An Inspector Calls is set To introduce the characters we’ll meet in the play To learn the importance of stage directions.

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Society Community

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  1. SocietyCommunity What do these two terms mean to you? Give a definition for both terms.

  2. Lesson Aims • To glean more information about the society in which An Inspector Calls is set • To introduce the characters we’ll meet in the play • To learn the importance of stage directions

  3. We don’t live alone, we live in a community. We are all responsible for each other. Everyone should put themselves first and look after ‘number one’. We are all connected to one another and our actions affect other people’s lives. Everyone has the right to be treated fairly and with respect whatever their class or social status.

  4. Characters – so who’s who? • Arthur Birling • Sybil Birling, his wife • Sheila Birling, his daughter • Eric Birling, his son • Edna, the maid • Gerald Croft • Inspector Goole • What assumptions can we make about the characters? • What questions do you have? • Can you develop your predictions about the play?

  5. Homework • Who would you cast in each of the roles? • To be completed on the VLE by Monday’s lesson.

  6. Opening Stage Directions… • Let’s read the opening stage directions together… • What do we learn about the furniture, props, costume, lighting and each of the characters… • Make notes in your book…

  7. Opening Stage Directions… • Listen to this analysis and add to your notes…

  8. Stage Design • Draw a design of the stage based on Priestley’s stage directions… • Remember to be as detailed as possible. • Add annotations to your design to show the significance of each of the items that are detailed…

  9. Review… • Has this information confirmed our assumptions, answered any of the questions or provoked further questions?

  10. Let’s read the opening section…

  11. 'One ofthe happiest nights ofmy life...' When the curtain rises on the scene of the family celebration, it seems on the surface that everything is right with the Birlings' world and there is a lot to look forward to. But this scene also suggests a subtle sense of unease.

  12. Read the statements below and select two that you think most fully explain this sense of unease. You must have evidence to support your opinions! Copy out the two you have chosen, with the supporting evidence • Birlingknows the Crofts have snubbed him by not turning up, but he's got his revenge because they need each other: they can monopolise the market together. • Birling shows by his ignorance of social convention that he has beaten them all, his wife included. Class is irrelevant to him. • Because he's a 'self-made man', he reckons he's shown everyone how they can do it - he hasn't time for weaklings. He's made 'progress' and that's what he believes in. • He's a man with quite a few skeletons in his cupboard.

  13. Read the statements below and select two that you think most fully explain this sense of unease. You must have evidence to support your opinions! Copy out the two you have chosen, with the supporting evidence • They're all putting on an act. They are all worried about what the other family might think of them. • The atmosphere of gaiety is forced. It's not good that Gerald's parents haven't come. • Sheila's pleased about the ring, but still uneasy about last summer when 'Gerald never came near her’. • Sheila shows by her language that she's not going to be tied down by convention • Eric is very nervous about something.

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