An Inspector Calls - Synopsis
It's a comfortable night in springtime and the Birling Family and
Mr.Croft are celebrating the engagement on their daughter Sheila to
Mr.Croft. Its all going so well the whole family are wallowing in
their self pride. There is a knock an the door, an inspector calls. As
the inspector starts to break down the party, we start to understand
more to the story. The inspector tells the group that there has
recently been a suicide; by a girl name Eva Smith. He explains to the
group how together it was of their doings that forced this girl to
commit suicide.
Mr Birling, a prosperous manufacturer employed Eva Smith at his
factory. While working at his factory Eva Smith started a strike
asking for higher pay rise which resulted in her sack.
She managed to get a new job in a shop that was very popular among the
Birling family. Sheila being the stuck up child that she is was
shopping in there one day when she was trying on a certain garment and
believed this Eva Smith was smirking at her. She complained to the
shop resulting in Eva's second sa...
She registered for work, and was given an identification card, and working papers. She was assigned work at a German run restaurant. She hated it. She left that job, when she found a job at a Polish run shop near her Aunt Helen’s house. Eventually the Nazi’s came and forced Irene and some others to work in an ammunition factory. After two weeks, she became weak and tired. One morning cadre officers came to inspect the workers. Irene’s hands were shaking as she tried to bundle ammunition. She ended up fainting. When she came to, A major handed her a cup of coffee. He offered her a job that he thought would be better for her. It was at a hotel. She would be working for Herr
There would be more of an effect on the audience at the time, as it
She is fairly new to the work world and has lied on her resume’ to get hired, and realizes that the job is harder than she first thought. All hope is not lost because Violet assures her that she can be trained. She ends up succeeding at the company and telling her husband she will not take him back after he comes back begging for her love again.
and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of a body. We are
This coursework focuses on how each character contributes to the suicide of a poor girl Eva Smith/Daisy Renton.
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley In the introduction of Act One, we are given a few brief details about
if she wanted to make something of herself she would have to work many times
technology and how a man should live. He says 'A man has to make his
The play is the tale of a rich family, that are accosted by a man
satisfied. He talks a lot and likes the sound of his own voice. He's a
in jeopardy than how he may have driven a young girl down a spiral to
The Inspector in An Inspector Calls Examine the function and symbolism of the Inspector in the play – An Inspector Calls, and explain how Priestly makes him dramatically effective Throughout the play ‘An Inspector Calls’, by J.B Priestley, the audience sees the role of a mysterious investigator who interrogates a powerful and upper-middle class family: The Birling's. Priestley uses the role of the Inspector to expose the characters in the play, and to put his own views across about the Birling’s and their conservative beliefs. The play was written in 1946 and set in the spring of 1912. This means that the audience would have known the future events (the two world wars). Therefore they are in a position to judge the characters beliefs.
the perfect son in law. But in the process of doing this she puts hr
Now she had became an entrepreneur, she had took a whole lot of risks in order for
had to carry on working the family farm by herself. With the death of his