Compare the script of An Inspector Calls to the filmed version

Compare the script of An Inspector Calls to the filmed version

Compare the script of 'An Inspector Calls' to the filmed version

The play 'An Inspector Calls' was written to give an important

message, one of which will be revealed later. It was written by a

successful author John Boynton Priestley (J.B. Priestley).

J.B. Priestley wrote plays, novels, articles, broadcasts and films.

His playwright, novelist, dramatist and critic skills brought him to

be known all around the world. He was born in Bradford in 1894 and

died at the well-established age of 90 (1984). He wrote a total of

forty-nine plays though out his life. At the age of sixteen he was

writing pieces for Bradford newspapers. He also served with the

Devonshire regiment during World War 1. Afterwards he received a

government grant, which allowed him to start at the Trinity Hall,

Cambridge University. After this he finished his degree and paid of

his grant by writing and moved to London to work as a reviewer and

critic and start off his career in the literary profession. This start

to his career set him up for a very prosperous future.

The play 'An Inspector Calls' was written when J.B. Priestley was

middle aged in 1944-45 in the winter, during the end of World War 2.

He had lived through the pains of both world wars and he had survived.

The play was set in1912 because it was before people were aware of the

tragedy and horror of the First World War. They thought that nothing

was going or could go wrong and peace was to be for all. Also because

of the Titanic's sinking, which had little relevance to the play but

could prove his characters arrogance and their unbelievable sureness

to be wrong, when they say that the Titanic is 'Absolutely

unsinkable'. Also when a character mentions that 'fire and blood and

anguish' is to come, the Birling family shrug it off and act arrogant

to the fact that not everything is as well as it seems and that this

is a warning to them if they bother to listen. The basis of the play

is a fact that J.B. Priestly uses in all his works, that what one

person does, doesn't just affect that person it affects everyone

around them too, this is J.B.P's main concern. Which is what the

Birling family stands to learn when they learn their lesson with the

disaster of Eva Smith. As well the time in which the play is set will

show that the following war will also show this point, as what the

countries leaders do effects the whole country and the world.