An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls is about a rich british family, the Birlings, an inspector, Gerald Croft, Eva Smith and a few minor characters iswell. It is a story set in the early years of the 20th century, about a family, who are rich and british, and who mostly just care about themselves and think nothing bad is going to happen to them, especially Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, in the story, Arthur Birling is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter, Sheila Birlings engagement to Gerald Croft, a son of a wealthy man who runs a successful company. This family dinner party soon gets interrupted by a firm and harsh police inspector, inspector Goole, who is investigating the suicide of a young woman, Eva Smith. The play starts off on a positive attitude, but soon ends in tragedy as, under the interrogation of inspector Goole, we soon discover that each member of the Birling Family turn out to have played a part in the suicide of Eva Smiths death. The aim of the story is to, try to teach each and every reader that we should not think so highly of ourselves, that we shouldn't be rude or selfish to others, and that we should not act as if we are superior to others, because in the end, what goes around, comes around, the more you read on, the more you will learn, and think, we are all human beings who have feelings and emotions and that we must work together in this society. The ending, turns out to be a cliff hanger, it leaves the reader wondering, and questioning whats going to happen next, the ending doesn't really explain alot of things, it leaves the reader thinking. We disco... ... middle of paper ... ...ish things they have done in the past, and made them want to treat others better, how they would want to be treated, because at the end of the day, it could all backfire and come back to you. No one would like to be in any of Gerald's, Mr Birling's, Mrs Birling's, Eric's, or Sheila's position, or even in Eva Smiths. He put through his aim in a good way, using humour, dramatic irony and tension in the play, it made the readers want to read on, and when they read on, I think they learned more, and wanted to be a nicer more thoughtful person. Using a rich british family as the main focus, teaches you that just because you are of higher status doesn't mean you're better than anyone else, and that just because you have more money than another person doesn't mean you should treat them any different or act superior to them.
There would be more of an effect on the audience at the time, as it
Criticism in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley "An Inspector Calls" has been called a play of social criticism. What is being criticised. Explain some of the dramatic techniques which Priestley uses to achieve the play's effects. "An Inspector Calls" has been called a play of social criticism as Priestley condemned the many different injustices that existed in the society between the first and second world wars.
and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of a body. We are
for each other. And I tell you that a time will soon come when if men
a large meal that has been set out for them by the maids. This is also
talks with. He is a man who has come to the Birling's house to do his
especially for a woman. Even if a woman did get a job they would get
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
Birlings, as they find out that they have all played a part in a young
How a death squad came into her house one night and took her family, except her because she hid in the closet like her father told her too. Later she escaped to the neighbor’s house, where the neighbors took her and arranged people to sneak her out the country. Because her father was an editor her father thought that they had so much influence that they would be safe. She never saw her family again. They disappeared.
...f the bad that is going on in her real life, so she would have a happy place to live. With the collapse of her happy place her defense was gone and she had no protection from her insanity anymore. This caused all of her blocked out thoughts to swarm her mind and turn her completely insane. When the doctor found her, he tried to go in and help her. When the doctor finally got in he fainted because he had made so many positive changes with her and was utterly distressed when he found out that it was all for naught. This woman had made a safety net within her mind so that she would not have to deal with the reality of being in an insane asylum, but in the end everything failed and it seems that what she had been protecting herself from finally conquered her. She was then forced to succumb to her breakdown and realize that she was in the insane asylum for the long run.
story due to the horrifying behavior of the characters in her written piece. From the start of the story, the
...manic depressive state which leads her to her suicide. She no longer has a will to repress any untold secrets from the past or perhaps the past. Since she has strayed far from her Christian beliefs, she has given in to the evil that has worked to overcome her. She believes she is finally achieving her freedom when she is only confining herself to one single choice, death. In taking her own life, she for the last time falls into an extremely low mood, disregards anyone but herself, and disobeys the church.
taking to quite a change. Even though the Gierson family was very powerful and well