Social and Moral Attitudes of Father and Daughter in An Inspector Calls

“Can you live in that moment, as best as you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart? If you can do that gentlemen then you’re perfect.” Doesn't take much dose it? This speech has so much meaning and and purpose behind it.

I find that as the speech gets closer to the end, the sentences get longer. This is highly effective, because shorter sentences cause a sense of urgency and forcefulness in his speech.

How does JB Priestley present the older and younger generations differently throughout the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ (45 mins)

But then the inspector comes in and gradually shows them how wrong Birling is and how we should feel and show responsibility for one another. In the play the Inspector conveys Priestly message that everyone should take responsibility instead of pushing it aside. He expresses this clearly when he interrogates each of them. ‘A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it’.

"We don't live alone. We are all members of one body. We are responsible for each other."

Immediately as the speech begins, Henry’s tone manifests itself and remains unwavering. Henry begins, “It is natural for a man to indulge in the illustration of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth” (1). This sheds insight on his message and portrays him as a well versed individual. He then strengthens his tone when he says

I specially enjoy when he used a direct tone to point to his primary audience what they missed in their initial statement. Doctor King

This balance between contradictory images, and suitably formal writing style helps to make the speech so powerful. He uses pronouns like "we", and "our" which unite the audience, making them feel like the whole nation is grieving with them. The pronouns shift, as he speaks to Diana herself, "you brightened our lives", then again, towards then end of the speech, to "I".

command at the end of Act I and the start of Act 2, and the end of Act

Washington starts off his speech with pathos. Pathos is appealing to the emotional side of the audience and trying to get an emotional response from them. Washington begins his speech on why he is doing the speech in the first place. His son went to Penn U, so he was already officiated with the school. Him sharing his information about his past with the school makes the crowd feel more relax and less anxious. Knowing the person who is speaking, understands what you are going through helps a lot in building a connection with the Washington. With a smooth beginning, Washington begins to tell jokes about the staff and how everyone here hates the Yankees. Washington, first establishing baseline with the audience, was key to conveyance his message to the spectators. Washington evens tells the people, that he is nervous and uncomfortable for he has not done this kind of speech before. The feeling of knowing this man in front of you is speaking to thousands of people is afraid, even though he is such a famous actor makes you feel empathy for him. This connection is strong for even though he is famous, he can still get nervous like all the graduates. Washington brings up ideas he had for this speech, making jokes about his co-workers and stories of them. He did not decide to use one of those because he wanted to leave a message worth leaving for the graduates that will last a lifetime. Washington even connects with the parents, by saying “I always like to check how my money is getting used, am I right parents?”. (Penn's 2011

"What about this girl?" Her role is to be the girl that needs to know

A number of other issues that were around at the time the play was set

He starts to build more of assertive fact stating tone to his speech. It helps his case in this point because he starts to tell the minority to ,”stop living life with the burdens of our past and stop becoming victims of the past,”(5) . The passion he is using just gives the the people an example of how far he has gotten as a minority. The hall in which he is speaking can feel his tone and take it to consideration when it comes ,” for better health care and better schools and jobs,” (6). He confronts issues and straightforward and shows that he is a problem solver. He always believes that people are the very on own history changer and destiny chasers. He knows what his supporter want to hear and need to hear. Not shying away from the elephant in the room. He addresses his former pastors statements and provides his solution statement. Allowing the audience to understand that you can have all the help you can get but at the end of the day the person that really can help you is yourself. ,” self help requires a belief that society can change ,”(6). The people who sinned back then their ancestors should have the stamp on them as being like their past. Everyone deserves redemption and a chance to prove their

Firstly, Bush structured this speech is very small paragraphs. When he delivered the speech he speaks very slowly and never speaks more than 6 sentences at a time. Also, he pauses very often to allow the audience to clap for his speech. This gives an opportunity for the audience to give a very positive response to his campaign. Displaying the popularity and support George Bush has to the international community.

this is his role in the events of the play. This, and the fact that