'An Inspector Calls' and the morality play tradition
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I can explain how ‘An Inspector Calls’ draws on the morality play tradition.
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Morality plays personify virtues and vices to teach moral lessons.
Priestley uses the Inspector as the embodiment of virtue.
Eva Smith represents social injustice, subverting the ‘everyman’ protagonist.
The Birlings act as vice characters, highlighting moral failings of the upper class.
The play’s structure mirrors a morality play, leading to judgment and reflection.
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