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hello and welcome to another lesson where I'll be going over the entire plot of an inspector

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calls this play within five minutes the reason why I am condensing all the major events within

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this play into five minutes is because sometimes it's really get easy to get wrapped up in the

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detail of the play it's really easy to kind of drown in all reams and reams of information and

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revision notes my maps and all that stuff and it can be really really difficult to take a step back

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and think okay now I've got my mocks coming up now I've got my exams coming up do I know all the key

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events within the play so I thought this would be a really useful and handy revision tool that you

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can turn to when revising the major key events within an inspector call so let's get into it

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inspector calls in five minutes now remember that the play starts with Sheila and Gerald Croft in

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the Burling household celebrating their engagement even if we know that Sheila is a little bit annoyed

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at Gerald because he basically ignored her the previous summer she accepts the ring that he

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offers her to the delight of her entire family and especially mr berling who is extremely pleased

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because he runs a company that's the rival of the croft company okay so he has his own

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manufacturing company and if if sheila and gerald get married they will be able to merge the business

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together and he will really benefit from this now mr berling sets eric and gerald to the side

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and they talk about the future mr berling reveals that he's very myopic his mind is up in the air

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he basically says that firstly the Germans don't want world war so you know the likelihood of first

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world war happening is very slim the Titanic will never sink and of course every man has to look

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after his own business himself society does not have any responsibility towards the poor to help

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them out whilst he's pontificating and telling both Eric and Gerald about this an inspector

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arrives Edna goes finds him waiting at the door brings him in and inspector Gould tells them that

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a lady called Eva Smith has committed suicide and died at the infirmary and it's actually all of

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their fault. Inspector Gould starts by blaming Mr. Burling who fired her from his factory because

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Eva Smith wanted to ask for more wages for slightly fairer pay and she got all of the women in the

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factory she organized them into a group where they protested for more wages and Mr. Burling simply

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fired her. Then Inspector Gould turns to Sheila and he says that Sheila is also responsible for

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Eva Smith's death because Eva Smith after being fired was able to get a job in a shop called

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Millwoods where Sheila shopped however Sheila used her influence because she was very jealous of Eva

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Smith's beauty to have her fired. Inspector Gould then turns to Gerald Croft. Gerald Croft who was

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supposed to be engaged to Sheila and he unveils the fact that Eva Smith because she was unable

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to get any more jobs she had to lead a very different sort of life in other words she had

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to become a prostitute and whilst working as a prostitute and where people knew in the palace

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bar prostitutes hung around gerald croft met her and he made her his mistress over the summer over

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the previous summer and he used her for sex and afterwards he just basically discarded her as if

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she was a piece of rubbish next inspector gall turns to mrs berling and he blames her because

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she used her influence over her charity to redact daisy renton when she was seeking help because she

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was pregnant then finally blame is shifted to eric burling as well okay so eric was also blamed

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because he also met daisy whilst she was working at the palace bar just like gerald and he started

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a relationship he was using her and then obviously ended up making her pregnant so mrs burling

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actually indirectly influenced the death of both daisy renton but also her grandchild now gerald

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leaves and investigates okay so he leaves under the guise and under the pretense that he's really

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sad he's really sorry all of this happens however he goes off and investigates and discovers that

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the inspector actually doesn't exist and he even questions whether this girl this person who the

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inspector is talking about does she even exist maybe there were four or five girls that were

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affected by them he comes back and tells them the news and we learn that gerald mr berling and mrs

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berling are really pleased they're delighted they can cover all of this up however eric and sheila

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are disappointed they're disappointed in them and they're disappointed that they've not learned

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anything from this encounter with inspector gore and finally whilst there's now a complete divide

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between the family with sheila and eric wanting to change whilst gerald mr and mr berling not

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wanting to change they get a call okay so the phone rings and they're told that a girl has

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recently killed herself in the infirmary and there's an officer on the way to ask the berling

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family about their role in her suicide so of course the play has a circular structure it starts

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off with the death of a girl and ends with the death of a girl so that's really it when it comes

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to knowing the key events to revise when considering inspector calls within five minutes thank you for

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listening