“An Inspector Calls” was written by J.B Priestley after the Second World War, It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings, a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands. This play circles around responsibility, showing us, the audiences that each character in the play has a part of responsibility for Eva Smith’s death, everyone of them is responsible, except for the Inspector of course. Priestly uses the Inspector as a symbol of Social Responsibility, Inspector is the
JB Priestley presents the theme of responsibility in “An Inspector Calls” in several ways. In this essay I will talk about how JB Priestley presents the theme of responsibility and how each character feels about them being responsible for Eva’s death, I will provide pure evidence to prove my point using quotes directly from the book. I will also talk about Mr. Birling speech and Inspector Goole’s speech and I will analyze them and give my opinion about the speeches. At the beginning of the play
"An Inspector Calls" was written by John Priestly in 1945. The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in April 1912. The play focuses on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in the fictional town of Brumley. The family is visited by a man named Inspector Goole. He questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith or Daisy Renton. The family is interrogated and subsequently blamed or the young woman's exploitation, abandonment
JB Priestley presents the theme of responsibility in “An Inspector Calls” in several ways. In this essay I will talk about how JB Priestley presents the theme of responsibility and how each character feels about them being responsible for Eva’s death, I will provide pure evidence to prove my point using quotes directly from the book. I will also talk about Mr. Birling speech and Inspector Goole’s speech and I will analyze them and give my opinion about the speeches. At the beginning of the play
JB Priestley presents the theme of responsibility in “An Inspector Calls” in several ways. In this essay I will talk about how JB Priestley presents the theme of responsibility and how each character feels about them being responsible for Eva’s death, I will provide pure evidence to prove my point using quotes directly from the book. I will also talk about Mr. Birling speech and Inspector Goole’s speech and I will analyze them and give my opinion about the speeches. At the beginning of the play
contradict me like that' ‘I’m talking to the inspector now if you don’t mind’ ‘...I think you must go to bed and forget this absurd business…’Mrs. Birling treats Sheila like a child and regards the gory death of Eva Smith as ‘absurd business’. She tries to intimidate the Inspector. ‘You know of course that my husband was lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate.’ This is a way for her to flaunt her social status to the Inspector. Note that she says this while, as described
An Inspector Calls is a play written by J.B Preistly, and was performed in 1945. It's focused on an upper class family who are wealthy at a period of time when the people around them were living in poverty. Since then, there has been a lot of controversy about the different classes. When it was first introduced the system had already turned into a socialist community but in the play, Preistly was expressing the ways of capitalists in 1912. So the play involved a lot of naivety, most of the characters
An inspector calls is a play with a variety of political and social implications. J.B Priestley believed in socialism and he used extravagant amounts of his plays to convince people to his way of thinking and his views on socialism. This play was written in an era when Britain was ruled by a labour government so socialist policies were seen to be the most guaranteed option. It was a widespread way of thinking at that point in history so Priestley devised the play in this way to influence the unconvinced
There are two social groups that are set in Inspector Calls and they are socialism and capitalism. Socialists are the lower class who care about everyone else and want everything to be the fair, however, Capitalists are the upper class who are rich and want to get richer. Since both the Birling’s and the Croft’s were in the upper class, they were in the capitalists. I know this because Mr Birling said “Now you have brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to a time when Croft’s and Birling’s
In Act One, Priestley initially presents Sheila as a submissive and typical girl raised in Edwardian Britain, an immature female who is seemingly less intelligent that the male figures of the play. However, as the story unfolds, she begins to mature and eventually shows herself to be a progressive and conscientious character, unlike her older relatives; evidently a tool for Priestley to convey his themes of socialism and responsibility, how the youth shape the future and how ‘traditional’ capitalist