GCSE An Inspector Calls

If Edna comes up then we are all screwed...

Do all the other exam boards have a choice of questions?
I do CIE and we can choose between an extract question and an essay question.

In AQA:
Section 1 you get two questions on an essay or theme.
Section 2 you get an extract and a contextual question and you have to answer both

In CIE you only have to answer one question about your Drama text. And you only get 45 minutes!

The other papers are poetry and you choose one out of two poems. It could be on any of the 14 that we have to study. Also a 45 minute question.

We also have a choice of an essay or extract question on our prose which is also 45 minutes.

And finally, a 1h15min unseen paper which is a choice of a poem or extract of prose that you have never studied and you don't know what it is.

Don't you get to choose out of two questions tho?

Either way I'm probably gonna do badly I'm not good at English, but I'm never gonna choose the Edna question

Either way I'm probably gonna do badly I'm not good at English, but I'm never gonna choose the Edna question

nopeee ahah

naa you'll be fineee

but ik I'm gna do a lot better in english language

English language is way more important anyway

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2685932
Seems like some thought Edna would come up two years ago too...

Sheila & Gerald's relationship maybe? idk but something about relationships im guessing and social/collective responsibility for the other question

Any predictions for the character question for An Inspector Calls?

Hope everyone who did their Inspector Calls today did well xxx

I found it okay I'm AQA and chose a question about conflict xx
How did you find it? x

I wrote that there was a nuanced conflict between the ideas of Capitalism, Isolationism and Economic Individualism (represent by Arthur Birling) and the ideas of Economic Individualism and Socialism (represented by the Inspector) and compared the two speeches made by Arthur Birling (at the beginning) and the Inspector (at the end). I mentioned that Arthur Birling displayed hubris and filled his speech with conjecture due to dramatic irony (e.g. Titanic is unsinkable) whereas the Inspector has a well thought out speech and uses alliteration and tricolons (millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths...) to show that Socialism was a more thought out plan.
Then I said that there was a conflict between the proletariat (e.g. Edna) and the bourgoise (e.g. Birlings) and that the proletariat are struggling to find a voice in Edwardian Britain shown by Edna's lack of appearance in the play and that she says the eponymous line "please, sir, an inspector's called" showing that the inspector represents people like Edna and the fact that she calls Arthur "sir" shows she is subordinate (conflict between classes)
Final point was conflict between women in their own class fighting for a voice in a patriarchal society (e.g. Mrs Birling says she'll have to get used to it when Gerald is away all summer showing how voiceless women were in Edwardian society and so they have a lot to gain in post-war Britain xx
What did you write?
Also what do you do for your other set text? x