Insightful exploratory response to task Insightful exploratory response to text Close analysis of detail to support interpretation Evaluation on the writer’s use of language and/or

structure and effect on audience Convincing/imaginative interpretation of

ideas/themes

Mr. Frammingham (characters) & Mrs. Griffifths (themes) will be offering further support on AIC on Tuesdays

Mr. Gooda will be offering an early introduction to Wikispaces on Wednesday after school (Wikispace Wednesday in E1). I’ll be putting all resources and a selection of past exams on Wikispaces leading up to the exam. I feel this will be valuable

I’ll also be offering drop in sessions every day from here to the literature exams for anyone who would like extra support from 3:00-4:30

Please let me know if you’re planning on taking advantage of these sessions

You are being handed a homework check test Think carefully before you answer. Once you

commit pen to paper it is an official answer◦ Think twice, circle once

Stage directions – They’re the closest thing we get to a narrator’s voice. Treat these as absolute gospel!

Setting – Dining room◦ Symbol of a middle-class lifestyle (no dining

rooms in 1912) – The very setting emphasizes privilege and difference

◦ The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike

Shows a drastic change from beginning to the end

SD – A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited”

Immature, although in her twenties◦ Referred to as a ‘girl’ in the stage directions◦ Says ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ in the text

Eric says “She’s got a nasty temper sometimes – but she’s not bad really. Good old Sheila!”◦ Does this accurately represent Sheila?

Although she’s dazzled by the ring at the start (suggests materialism and juvenility) and looks for her mother’s approval ◦ “Look – Mummy – isn’t it a beauty?” – “Careful! I’ll never let it go out of my sight

for an instant”◦ she’s mature enough to hand the ring back and claim her own relational status

near the end, and do it independently).

However, there are hints of an independent woman Priestly is championing an independent life for Shiela

◦ Challenges Gerald over last summer and his long hours Represents the voice that Priestly wants the post-war

generation to have◦ Society NEEDS to change

Her marriage to Gerald appears to be more about a business alliance than any romantic gesture (think Lord Capulet – Paris)◦ She is let down by both men in her life – Gerald and

Birling◦ Gerald, who cheats on her and says he was ‘too busy’

when he was having an affair

When Goole reveals what happened to Eva Brown, Sheila isn’t in the room◦ Eric is ‘my God’ – (Eric also represents youth)◦ Sheila walks in on a man’s world

She is being protected She’s repeatedly being told to leave the room Her refusal to do so in pursuit of the truth speaks to

the modern emergence of women into the world◦ Provides an emotional response to the death of Eva Smith

(unlike Sybil and Arthur)◦ Once she finds out “oh – how horrible”

The dash indicates the scale of the events/scenario

Sheila has Eva sacked because of her insecurities◦ Abuses her influence (see Curley’s Wife)◦ However, Sheila admits she ‘felt rotten (juvenile

language) about it at the time” Suggests she’s grown up since then and will

continue to mature

She’s the first to realize the scope of the Inspector’s power◦ “I hate to think how much he knows that we

don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see.” Repetition and absolute belief in IG Repetition acts to heighten suspicion and

tension at the secrets yet to be unfolded She’s wise and intelligent – hope for a

new world

Is repeatedly referred to as “hysterical” in stage directions and quotes◦ Both stage directions and in the dialogue◦ (26, 27 SD, 27 SB, 48 Mrs)

She ends the play as mature ◦ “I respect you more than I’ve ever done” (40)◦ “I don’t dislike you as I did a half an hour ago

(40)◦ Yet she was going to marry him

“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here◦ Then she breaks up with him

Independent mind is growing

She ends the play being the voice of the Inspector “Stage direction – “Flaring Up” It’s you two who are being childish – trying not to face facts’ I suppose we’re nice people now

She invites the audience to look down at the Birlings and the Birlings that exist in the real world

“But these girl’s aren’t cheap labour – they’re people” First to pick up on Eric’s involvement Realises that Gerald knew Daisy Renton First to wonder who the Inspector really is

“I don’t understand about you” “He’s giving us the rope – so that we’ll hang ourselves”

◦ First to consider IG may not be real

Earlier in play she’s described as ‘half-serious, half-playful’ (twice in short succession 3)◦ Does she use the playfulness to fill society’s

expectations for her?◦ Does this direction foreshadow Sheila’s positive

turn throughout the night? She is the harbinger of change that

Priestly champions through honest social responsibility

She’s stubborn like her parents but rather than use her stubbornness to resist the inspector she uses hers to seek out the truth◦ Demands that Gerald and Sybil answer the

Inspector’s questions and tells Birling not to interfere

◦ She also asks a lot of questions, contradicts and interferes – Mirroring the moral authority of the Inspector

◦ She’s taking control of the dynamic – going against Edwardian roles

End of the Play – She is wiser and judges her parents from a new perspective. Her social conscience has been awakened.

Insightful exploratory response to task Insightful exploratory response to text Close analysis of detail to support interpretation Evaluation on the writer’s use of language and/or

structure and effect on audience Convincing/imaginative interpretation of

ideas/themes