A Comparison of Blue Remembered Hills and An Inspector Calls
In "Blue Remembered Hills" by Dennis Potter and "An Inspector Calls"
by J.B. Priestly there are many similarities and differences. "In Blue
remembered Hills" there is a sub-plot, with the two girls and Donald
this joins with the main plot whereas in "An Inspector Call" there is
no sub-plot, so this does not distract the audience from the central
theme, therefore the action is continuous.
Blue Remembered Hills begins by introducing you to two young boys
Peter and Willie, Peter is a bit of a bully and not too bright,
whereas Willie seems to be bright and fun-loving. Later on in the play
another two boys appear, Raymond who has a stutter but almost always
has a cheeky grin on his face and also John is an argumentative and
sensitive boy. In the next scene Audrey, who is rather plain and
Angela who is pretty, with ringlet hair and blue ribbons are playing
house with "Donald Duck" who is an abused child.
In "An Inspector Calls" the characters are Mr Birling who is a
prosperous factory owner, not the social equal of his wife. He is 'a
self made man'. His Wife, Mrs Birling, a cold women and is Ms
Birling's social superior. Sheila, Mr Birling's daughter, is a pretty
young woman in her early twenties and is very pleased with her life,
being newly engaged to Gerald Croft, who is a manly, well-bred young
man-about-town. Eric, Mr birling's son, in his twenties who is not
quite at ease with himself, half shy and half assertive. The Inspector
is a assertive and respected man.
Both plays are started with normal activities, ie: having dinner and
playing in the woods, and both stories have a death in them, In "blue
Remembered Hills," Donald one of the boys in the play dies in a shed
fire, which he started. Whereas in "An Inspector Calls," a young girl
Eva Smith dies, but she commits suicide. In "Blue Remembered Hills"
the characters know how Donald dies, whereas in "An Inspector Calls"
Priestley mainly uses the characters in the play to present his views, especially Mr and Mrs Birling, to present his ideas about class and society. In the Birling family, Mrs Birling is the most upper class, and is always referring to the lower class female factory workers such as Eva Smith as ‘girls of that class’. She seems to think that working class people are not humans at all.
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