J.B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls"
"An Inspector Calls" is a politics based detective play script written
by John Bonyton Priestley, or better know as J.B Priestley.
The play takes place in the wealthy Birtling's family dining room, a
room of which has "good solid furniture of the period", "the general
effect is substantial and heavily comfortable but not cosy and
homelike."
The family are celebrating their daughters engagement to Mr Gerald
Croft, an upper class man, as are the Birling's in the play. A visit
from the Inspector Goole becomes a terrifying experience for the
Birlings, as they find out that they have all played a part in a young
girls suicide. J.B Priestley wrote this play after world war II in
1945, and was first performed in 1946, though he set the play as if it
were taking place in 1912,just a week before the Titanic took sail to
New York.
In this play, Priestley's main aim was to encourage people to take
responsibility for their actions, and to stop people from shifting the
blame on to others.
Priestley conveys his attitudes and ideas through the characters in
the play. Inspector Goole is used to voice his own opinions, where as
the Birlings are to show what Priestley's opinions are of
'capitalists.'
Many people in 1912, thought that capitalism was the right way to go
about things, (such as upper class people, the Birlings and Gerald
Croft who appear in the play) where as others thought that this was an
incorrect way, and unfair such as lower class people, Inspector Goole
and J.B Priestley.
In "An Inspector Calls", Priestley tries to encourage socialism, and
for it to over come capitalism. He tries to make a point that
socialism is the correct way to go about things ...
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examples on how to, and not to behave.
Priestley wanted socialism to overcome capitalism, by using Mr Birling
and Inspector Goole as examples of the differences between the two.
Priestley uses Inspector Goole as a hero, he makes the socialist seem
to be the nicer person of the two, and therefore encourage the
viewers/ readers to have the same opinion or change their opinion to a
"socialism rules, capitalism sucks" point of view.
Priestley's views are absolute and he puts this into both characters.
Birling believes in absolute capitalism, where as Goole believes in
absolute socialism.
Priestley does convey his opinions and attitudes, though I don't think
unfortunately well enough to change other peoples attitudes. There
will always be people such as the Birlings, thinking that they are so
much better than others.
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