J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls received bad reviews after it was first performed in London 1946, as there was some definite confusion as to who the Inspector really was. Was he your usual police inspector, a fraudster or was he some form of supernatural being? Gareth Lloyd Evans, a critic, said that the Inspector is “an embodiment of a collective conscience”. Your conscience can be described as the ‘voice within’ that tells you when you are doing something wrong, so the Inspector as an embodiment of this would be the physical manifestation of a group of consciences. I will look at how JB Priestley develops the dramatic impact of the Inspector in his language, effect on other characters and overall presence on stage. The entry of the Inspector is both coincidental and important. His entry is timed to be just at the point when Mr Birling is saying how “a man has to mind his own business and look after himself”. Before that point the Birlings and Gerald Croft had been having a small and rather self-satisfied celebration of Gerald and Sheila’s engagement. Mr Birling’s pompous speech is designed to set the audience at unease. J.B Priestley uses dramatic irony with Mr Birling discussing the impossibility of war ”we’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity” which the audience obviously know will follow in later years, as the play is set in 1912. This unease creates the perfect time for Priestley’s mysterious Inspector to appear. The entrance of the Inspector just after Birling’s speech is there because Priestley is trying to show the old attitudes of society before both wars, when the play was set, con... ... middle of paper ... ...bodiment of a collective conscience”, perhaps of the Birlings and Gerald or perhaps of all of us. He successfully manages to show the characters the effect they can have in other peoples lives and tells them what they should do. This role of his is asserted in his language, presence and effect that he has upon the other characters. Priestley develops this impact as he goes along uncovering more secrets using the Inspector’s catalytic presence. The Inspector is not just there though to make the Birlings feel guilty, he is there as a representative of Priestley’s viewpoint. Priestley had strong views and the Inspector is there to show the audience that now, with class divides broken down from the war, we should take this opportunity to do the right thing and take care of one another and realise our social responsibility.
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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.
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