An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley
Introduction:
The play was written in 1945, but the play was set in 1912, before the
2nd World War when people talked confidently of the future, unaware of
the disasters to come.
Part 1:
Mr. Birling is very self-cantered, doesn't like to be proved wrong and
he thinks low-class people are not as good as him. Mr. Birling is very
competitive and if Sheila marries Gerald Croft the son of Mr.
Birling's competition, then he will not have to worry about losing
profit if Mr. Birling and Gerald Croft's father join sides. He wants
his daughter married to a high-class family because he doesn't want
her in a low-class family. My first impression of Sheila is that she
doesn't care about anyone but herself, she is very stuck up, excitable
and jealous and she is excited about her marriage to Gerald Croft, her
father also spoils her
Part 2:
When Mr. Birling first meets the inspector, he is very surprised that
the inspector thinks that he and his family had anything to do with
the death of Eva Smith, he begins to ask the inspector questions
because Mr. Birling knows most of the police in the area and thinks
the inspector is a fake. When Sheila first meets the inspector she
does not understand why he is there and asks what is going on. She is
shocked at the fact that the inspector thinks her father was the cause
of Eva Smith committing suicide, and also shocked at the fact that her
father fired Eva Smith for asking for enough money to live on because
Mr. Birling was paying her below minimum wage. She is very different
to Mr. Birling because Mr. Birling doesn't care about the fact that a
woman has committed suicide because of him, whereas Sheila does and
she can't stop thinking about it.
Part 3:
Mr. Birling acts very calm when the inspector starts asking questions,
but as he starts asking more personal questions, for example when Eva
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
The play was set it in 1912, so that he knew what was going to happen
This coursework focuses on how each character contributes to the suicide of a poor girl Eva Smith/Daisy Renton.
especially for a woman. Even if a woman did get a job they would get
they have done even know they do not lead her to her suicide. But a
into a little house just big enough to stand in. It gives you a great
upon so many levels. On the surface it is a simple tale of how one man
The play also conveys a strong political message. The play encourages the idea of socialism, a society in which responsibility and community are essential, also a place where the community all work together and are responsible for their actions. This is in contrast to capitalism. JB priestly wrote the play in 1945, but it was set in 1912 just before the war, it was later performed in 1946. The play was written after World War I and World War II, Priestley used this to his advantage, it makes the audience feel awful after what has just happened, the majority of the audience would have either lived through one or both of the wars.
J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls John Boynton Priestley was one of the most popular, versatile and greatest authors of his day. His works of popular history and literary criticism are numerous, ending with the story of Literature and the western woman. However it was as a playwright and as a social thinker that he was especially important. Politically, J.B. Priestley was a patriotic socialist who did not believe in the case of social class or rich dominancy, he believed that people should help each other and not be so competitive towards others. He hated social class because of the way upper class people took advantage of the working classes.
1945, and was first performed in 1946, though he set the play as if it
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