Inspector - old V young

Key Quote

"""We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable."" (Act 2)

Technique 1

Personal pronouns (we/they) create interconnectedness (all connected), linking Inspector, characters, and audience in shared responsibility. ""We"" suggests collective social conscience (moral awareness), exposing universal guilt for exploiting (taking advantage of) the vulnerable."

RAD

The personal pronouns emblematically (representatively) position the Inspector as a voice for socialist values.

Technique 2

"Juxtaposition (contrasting ideas) shows young people’s impressionability (easily influenced) against the older generation’s unscrupulous (immoral) indifference. This contrast exposes how entrenched capitalist ideologies (built-in ideas) dehumanise (treat without humanity) society."

Context

Priestley: His diatribe (political criticism) attacks laissez -faire (hands-off) attitudes, promoting societal interconnectedness (all connected) and empathy. Class System: The quote highlights youth’s potential to reject entrenched (built-in) class inequalities and laissez-faire (hands-off) ideologies."

WOW

The play’s layered revelations expose societal hypocrisy (double standards) by revealing generational attitudes towards exploitation (taking advantage). The Inspector targets youth’s impressionability (easily influenced), contrasting their potential for change with elders’ remorseless (no guilt) mindset."