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The "Mr Birling vs. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey" vibes are impeccable
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Resources For People Studying 'An Inspector Calls'
Videos:
Mr Bruff's Analysis Videos
An Inspector Calls in 5 Minutes
Articles:
Plot Summary
Characters
Themes
Form, Structure and Language
Dramatization
Sample Exam Question
Podcast Episodes:
Act 1
Act 1 Key Quotes
Act 2
Act 2 Key Quotes
Act 3
Act 3 Key Quotes
Structure and Chronology
Setting, Lighting and Dramatic Irony
Character Analysis: Sheila
Sheila Key Quotes
Character Analysis: The Inspector
Character Analysis: Mr Birling
Mr Birling Key Quotes
Character Analysis: Eva Smith
Character Analysis: Mrs Birling
Mrs Birling Key Quotes
Character Analysis: Gerald Croft
Gerald Key Quotes
Character Analysis: Eric
Eric Key Quotes
Mr Birling and Pride
Themes: Class
Themes: Responsibility
Themes: Gender
Attitudes To Women
Blame and Responsibility
Socialism VS Capitalism
Abuse of Power and Corruption
Social Class and Inequality
#gcse resources#gcse exams#gcse english lit#gcse english#gcse mocks#gcse studyblr#gcse#english literature#an inspector calls#english studyblr#studyblr#studyspo#studystudystudy#studyspiration#study resources#inspector goole#eva smith#sheila birling#mr birling#english#english lit
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ngl I don’t think the books we read in English lit were very interesting or impactful.
Macbeth? Spent the entire time thinking about how I originally wrote McBeth and was gobsmacked that I was wrong. A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens can suck my dick. Fred is the foil, next. The Hunger Games? Just read it, we weren’t studying it at all. To Kill A Mockingbird? We stopped reading it halfway through bc our Canadian teacher realised that eleven year old kids were dying of boredom and so swapped to thg. The Great Gatsby? Beautifully put together, awful to read. Animal Farm? Okay so governments can’t be trusted and they had dumb names. Boring. Power and Conflict Poetry? Hit or miss. Philip Larkin poetry? Total bummer, bit of a whore.
An Inspector Calls? Flawless. Impactful. Men are awful. The rich are terrible. Responsibility is important. David Thewlis is, surprisingly to me, fuckable. Ghosts may be real. My sins will haunt me forever. It changed me as a person. I still think about it all the time. All the time. Seriously. Inspector Goole is a manifestation of my guilt.
I try to enjoy my blorbos and then I remember that Inspector Goole would drag them (as they deserve) and they simply. would. not. care.
In other words, I’m having a terrible time today.
#I’m crying#let me have my terrible fictional characters you literary vehicle of socialism and social responsibility#please im desperate#the eric/gerald smut I wrote in yr 11 haunts me enough#I want peace#I’ve written so many an inspector calls aus#leave me alone#very good tho#watch/read it if you haven’t#an inspector calls#inspector Goole#Sheila birling#geralt Croft#Eva smith#eric birling#mr birling#mrs birling#daisy renton
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I type 4 Eva on the groupchat and they think I mean forever when I actually mean for Eva Smith from an inspector calls who deserves better
#an inspector calls#eva smith#daisy renton#the birling family#eric birling#sheila birling#mrs birling#sybil birling#arthur birling#mr birling#gerald croft#i know this is a niche joke about a play i only ever encountered in my gcses so the target audience is probably none existant#but it would leave my head unless i shared it
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HEADCANONS !
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SHEILA 💍 :
bisexual + cis woman • she / they prnns
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ERIC 🍻 :
queer + demiboy • any prnns
( severely closeted )
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GERALD 🏳️🌈 :
pan + cis guy • he / him prnns
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MR BIRLING 💸 :
trans man ( evil ) + unlabelled • he / him prnns
( out but not proud )
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MRS BIRLING 👗 :
cishet • she / her ( homophobic 😥 )
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THE INSPECTOR 🔬 :
agender + uranic • he / she / they + all neo prnns ( no pref )
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EVA SMITH 💫 :
lesbian + non - binary • they / she prnns
#gcse english#aic#an inspector calls gcse#an inspector calls#eva smith#mr birling#arthur birling#sybil birling#eric birling#gerald croft#sheila birling#headcanons
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I did my final essay of An Inspector Calls today! The question was about how Mrs Birling was presented and what the purpose was. I came prepared with notes (it was open book- thank god) n stuff and wrote 4 and a half pages! But tbh i don't think I really managed 2 really expand on the quotes n annotate them n stuff, so I'm kinda scared I'll get a bad grade :<
We're gonna start a new topic after spring term break, it's gonna be about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and like the tryhard I was, I read that book 2 be ready 4 it . I'm actually so excited for it, I rlly loved that book!! :33
#annie yaps#dr jekyll and mr hyde#an inspector calls#sybil birling#mrs birling#english literature#literature#classic literature#gcse studyblr#studyspo
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happy proving mr birling wrong day! (anniversary of the titanic sinking) and also kate winslet and leo di caprio
#happy men's hubris fails day#obviously this was a deeply tragic event that the people aboard the titanic didn't deserve but this is hating on mr birling alone#titanic#an inspector calls
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If Sheila Birling has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Sheila Birling has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Sheila Birling has only one fan then that is me. If Sheila Birling has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Sheila Birling , then I am against the world.
#she was the only one to take responsibility#fuck gerald#fuck mr birling#fuck mrs birling#fuck eric#the inspector is iconic#sheila birling#an inspector calls
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the 1912 femdom
#miranda richardson#sybil birling#an inspector calls#mrs birling#middle aged actresses#good omens#shax#madame tracy#rita skeeter#blackadder#queenie#lgbt#bisexual#lesbian#wlw
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they should’ve let revision rocks swear
#gerald’s song just goes IM FUCKING AWFUL (sick guitar solo)#gotta say these aren’t as awful as i thought they would be but i would do them a little differently i dunno#they should be different genres at least like sheila’s a bit different but mr birling and the inspector sounded so similar i dunno#oh unrelated but what if i just tried to do like a brass quartet as a composition or something cause ive got enough time so see if i can do#eh but equally that’d be kinda similar to my concerto cause the ripieno is mostly brass in that#i’ll see i can play about with it#man i was being so productive till i stumbled upon this now i’m done for#ezra’s real life rambles#ezra likes music
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#limp wrist#professionalism#businessmen#literally#mad men#men in suits#dapgames#dnpgames#dnp#suits#succession#economics#capitalists inspo#Mr. birling
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#cabin pressure#martin crieff#benedict cumberbatch#mr birling#episode: paris#colour palette challenge#@lorelei-lee
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NEW FINN CONTENT: Finn sharing his experience of acting with Year 10 Drama students.
#finn cole#finn#an inspector calls#eric birling#MR FINN COLE#i have just done my inspector call paper for my english gcse#lets home i pass it#NEW FINN CONTENT
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walking into English w extreme levels of confidence for someone who doesnt know any quotes, doesnt have any ideas abt the texts and is a slow writer
#inspector calls will be fine I hope#like im okay w a question about eva or the inspector or about class or socialism or feminism#if its a choice between like younger vs older generation and like. mr birling im going to kms#hopefully theres at least one question I know#Christmas carol...… if its not redemption im screwed#like if they ask about love or something im fr going to cry right there in the hall#I should have learned jeckyll and hyde by myself damn. why didnt I do that#like can it just please be about scrooge / poverty / redemption / social change / childhood ?#god. imagine if its abt fred . I will genuinely kill myself guys#cant do fred/ marley / the ghosts/ the cratchits#wait I just looked online and apparently the theme of Christmas is a thing.#like mf what do you mean theme like yeah it takes place at christmas what do you want from me#all I could say abt that would be like the significance of the setting being Christmas. that's it#i mean i guess i could link it to community then to scrooges transformation as well and charity...#still i hope it doesnt come up bcz the essay will be so disjointed and awkward
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Random ass headcanon that From Eroica With Love and Cabin Pressure take place in the same universe. Don't ask me why; it makes sense in my brain somehow.
#“he loved to shout. shout and smoke. those were his twin passions.”#cabin pressure#from eroica with love#crack crossover#both works involve a lot of globe hopping#and the alphabet#(major's 26 underlings each a different letter of the alphabet; cp's 26 episodes each start with different letter of the alphabet)#mr. james would have a field day with mr. birling#also. the lemon is in play.#if i ever get around to writing actual fanfic i gotta make this crossover happen#dorian bonham james klaus and some of the alphabets (at least a b g and z) all end up on gertie together#hijinks ensue#james and douglas hatch some kind of zany scheme together#agent a and martin form some kind of support group due to shared stressful experiences. hell throw bonham in there too.#martin agent a and bonham are the “eternally done with this shit” squad#maybe less so bonham but he can be a sympathetic ear
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Cabin Pressure Advent Day 21: Uskerty
I absolutely adore this episode as the origin of my single favorite Cabin Pressure line: "You know, between the dames and the horses, sometimes I don't know why I even put my hat on." Nothing will ever beat it for me.
So yeah, this episode is super funny, but I do want to talk a bit about something that's come up as my go to "look, a THEME!" here- vulnerability. Because as I was listening, trying to figure out what I was taking away from this episode besides "this is all really funny and well plotted" because at a certain point that gets old, it struck me that there are ways that both of our (absolutely brilliant) pairings this episode really strike a chord when considering the role of vulnerability- and lack of it- in relationships.
This is a bit less so in the Douglas-Arthur pairing in this episode, which is inspired (and yay, there's finally a nice airport manager!)- there are brilliant set pieces, and the premise of the bar conversation allows two very different people to kind of sort of attempt to understand each other. There's also a really nice father/son element- we already can perceive, even if it's not said outright, that Arthur doesn't have much of a father figure- his life is very dominated by Carolyn's influence, even in the majority-male flight deck, in a way that I think even tints his interactions with Mr Birling about sports (there's a tinge of eagerness for acceptance), which he's clueless about. Would Arthur know more about sports if he'd had a dad who gave a shit about him? Who knows. But this episode giving him an older man who's willing to open an as-yet-shut door into a men's world that excites him.
The men's world is, of course, the world of the pub. We've already seen a glimpse of Douglas in that milieu in Kuala Lumpur, and usually I'd say the less said about that the better, but I think there's something interesting about how mean spirited and surfacey it could be there, alongside Arthur's misunderstanding what Douglas means about "talking about their lives." He asks a question that is so unexpectedly and deeply personal that Douglas isn't even upset that he asks, he understands that this is another rule of masculine bar/pub conversation that he has to teach Arthur. On a certain level, this is fine on its own- there's a time and place for everything- but if you look at it a certain way, it can reinforce tropes about men and expressing emotions and feelings. And yet... even by following the rules of pub chat that Douglas lays out for him, and trying to fall into its ritualistic norms (like creative insults), Arthur, in part through his own open-book vulnerability, is able to bring things to a place where Douglas is pretty unselfconsciously vulnerable himself, about the place in the world where he finds himself. And by the end, he's fallen more into Arthur's more atmospheric image of two men in a bar. He's loosened up, and isn't playing by the rules anymore. It's just really nice (in addition to being hilariously funny).
The Martin and Carolyn pairing is maybe a bit less novel than the Douglas and Arthur one, but it still works really well in this discussion of vulnerability. Both of them have had pretenses/barriers they try to keep up- and both, incidentally, are related to their own interest in expressing that they are in control- but by now Martin has learned enough to have started to relax his. This actually really helps, as his actions aren't hampered by pretense or pride- he's basically able to function ALMOST competently with the cabbie as a result. But Carolyn is almost on overtime trying to keep her barriers up against vulnerability and it is clearly driving her a bit bananas, hence her complete dysfunction this episode- she has to be ironic and invulnerable about her gift to Herc, to prove that she may be seeing him but she doesn't have feelings (which will of course come to haunt her in Vaduz), and as a result loses all her judgment. And her overtime craziness is, unusually enough, what causes Martin’s misfortune, not his own incompetence! He's the functional one here, not her, because unlike her he's not filtering all his behavior through this one very constricting lens.
Once Martin is able to open her up a bit in the discussion of his salary- where she starts off in control as the boss and is forced to face the fact that Martin is loyal to her even when he shouldn't be*, which could very easily pierce the defenses of her invulnerability as she has to accept this reality- she starts to mellow out. Whereas she starts off saying that she's “not a little old lady” so she can’t do the totally reasonable thing until Martin begs, afterward she manages to chill enough that she can do the, you know, sane thing even though it dings her a bit in the self-confidence. She's not quite as in thrall to her inner barriers anymore.
I'll just end off by saying- this episode may also, in addition to my favorite line, have my favorite closing lines of any episode, with the possible exception of Zurich 2. Though that one's mostly about the nostalgia and emotions. So maybe this is it.
*On this note- when did Martin stop looking for jobs? He was looking in Rotterdam… given my St Petersburg post I wonder if it was before or after that.
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