“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
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 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
1. Introduction Detective fiction is a relatively young genre of literature: “The idea that crime, particularly murder, provided entertainment was only born in the first decades of the nineteenth century, but it would bloom into one of the greatest mass-media interests of all time” (Worsley 17, italics in the original). In spite of its youthfulness, this genre has already developed its own rules and regulations/conventions, as well as established its own canon. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective