An Inspector Calls by John Priestly

An Inspector Calls by John Priestly

A determined writer, who goes by the name John Boynton Priestly, wrote

and published over 120 books and one of his selected works was An

Inspector Calls.

An Inspector Calls was written in the year 1945 when the world came to

the end 2nd world war but John Boynton Priestly set this play in the

1912, just prior to the 1st world war and sinking of titanic.

An Inspector Calls was set in the dining room of a family called the

Birling's. The Birling family consists of the 2 parents Authur Birling

a hard-headed businessman, Sybil Birling a well-known member of the

Birling women’s charity Organisation and their 2 children, Eric still

finding difficulties with knowing himself and Sheila the one who is

very pleased with the world and has a huge amount of self-confidence.

The plot of the play “An Inspector Calls” is a family “The Birling’s”

celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila, when the front

vague bell rings and a police Inspector calls to ask questions about a

recent suicide of a young woman called Eva Smith.

The police Inspector goes by the name of Goole. Inspector Goole

questions each of the characters in turn through this question he

begins to reconstruct the last part of Eva’s life for the audience

.The Inspector gradually digs out how each member of the family has a

level of responsibility for Eva Smith’s death.

The main theme of this play was “RESPONSIBILTY” this is because John

Boynton Priestly wanted to show how different people or characters are

equally responsible for something. Also to show how people will

respond in different ways to a challenge at hand.

An Inspector Calls is written in style of a “Morality Play”. John

Boynton Priestley’s aim of writing this play was to pass on an

important message about life and our responsibilities in the society,

to the audience and the characters in this play.

The characters in An Inspector Calls were faced with their secret

guilts. Mr Billing’s fault is he sacked Eva Smith from work due to the