Question
Edexcel Paper 1 Section B — Post-1914 Literature (40 marks)
Explore how Priestley presents the Inspector as a dramatic device in An Inspector Calls.
Mark scheme by AO band:
- AO1 (≈12 marks): Band 4–5 — clear or perceptive argument that the Inspector functions less as a character than as Priestley's moral and structural lever. Quotation should range across his entrances, his "fire and blood and anguish" speech, and his exit.
- AO2 (≈20 marks): Band 4–5 — analysis of his methods of questioning (one line of inquiry at a time), his entrances cued to Birling's complacent speeches, the symbolic name "Goole" (ghoul / ghost), and the iambic intensity of the final speech.
- AO4 (8 marks): Band 5 — controlled essay register, accurate technical terms (allegory, didactic, stichomythia where relevant).
Top responses read the Inspector as both supernatural and didactic — Priestley using him to break the realist frame.
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