A Critical Evaluation of An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls Critical Evaluation - The main goal of this essay is to

write about the role of Inspector Goole in the play. Other details will

also going into consideration.

An Inspector Calls Critical Evaluation

The main goal of this essay is to write about the role of Inspector

Goole in the play. Other details will also going into consideration.

An Inspector Calls is a play wrote by J.B Priestly. The first scene

shows a dining room of a large Edwardian house. The furniture and the

people around the large dining table shows us that these are wealthy

and probably people of high stature. The people around the table

consist of Arthur Birling (the father), Sybil Birling (the mother),

Sheila Birling (the daughter), Eric Birling (the son) and Gerald Croft

(whom has just become engaged to Sheila Birling). After they have

finished dinner they settle down and start drinking port. Then Arthur

Birling makes a speech towards Sheila and Gerald's engagement, to the

family. Already, we are having ideas about how the Birlings and Gerald

Croft are quite smug and self-centred in the way the act. Then the

doorbell rings when Arthur is making his speech. He continues with his

speech, and just before the maid announces that a police inspector has

called, Arthur makes a comment that goes right to the heart of the

play. He says, "But the way some of these cranks talk and write now,

you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were

all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that

nonsense." This statement will soon challenge Birling's position when

the story unfolds and proves him wrong.

After Edna (the maid) has announced the arrival of Inspector Goole,

Birling says "Show him...

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...osition that the Inspector, while interigating them, had shown

them all different pictures of this girl and that they have been

fooled. Arthur agrees triumphantly. Still Eric replies by saying that

a girl has still died and that's all that mattered. Then Arthur

suggests that no girl has died and if the Inspector lied about his

position, and the photos, then he could be lying about a girl dying in

the Infirmary. He then calls the Infirmary and discovers that no girl

has died of suicide, and that nobody has been brought in from drinking

bleach. Then the whole families go straight back into their old

attitudes and state of mind like they were like at the start of the

play. But then suddenly the phone rings and they all find out that a

girl has just committed suicide by drinking bleach, and has died, and

that an Inspector is coming round to ask some questions.