J.B. Priestley's Motives Behind An Inspector Calls J.B. Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1894. His mother sadly died later that year but then his father remarried four years later. He had worked as a schoolmaster. At sixteen Priestley left school wanting to write and he said, “I believed that the world outside classrooms and labs would help me to become a writer.” But instead of working for the local newspaper he worked as a ‘very junior clerk’ in Helm and Company, the local wool firm. Before World War 1, Priestley gained a lot of experience and he was surrounded by “people who read a great deal…and preferred real talk…to social chit-chat” Priestley’s father was a socialist, who shared his views with his circle of friends and these were some of the people that Priestley joined in political arguments with. In 1914 he joined the army and nearly got killed by a German shell by exploding just metres away. This experience, as well as many others he had to go through while in the army, had a great influence on his writing from then on and he considered himself very lucky to not have died. He then went on to Cambridge University where he studied Modern
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Throughout his play Priestley warned so... ... middle of paper ... ... l interrupts and takes them back to relive the events. It is this which allows the possibility that the Inspector was a real policeman who has slipped out of real time and will return. If they fail to learn from their experiences and are 'ready to go on in the same old way' the Inspector's threat of "fire and blood and anguish" will become their reality.
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Priestley’s Main Aim in An Inspector Calls JB Priestly wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ to enhance the message that ‘we don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other’. This is something Priestly felt strongly about and he succeeded in representing his views through the character of the Inspector in the play itself. He wanted to communicate the message that our actions, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, always affect others.
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The play "An Inspector Calls" was written by J.B Priestley in 1945, when the British people were recovering from over six years of constant warfare and danger. As a result of two world wars, class distinctions were greatly reduced and women had achieved a much higher place in society. It was due to this and a great desire for social change that Labour's Clement Attlee won a landslide victory over the conservative Winston Churchill. He nationalized the gas steel and electrical industries, established the NHS and introduced the Welfare State. The play was set in Brumley, a fictional industrial city, in 1912.The playwright believed passionately in the left wing perspective and his message is overtly political. He uses techniques such as "dramatic irony" and "direct mouthpieces", which define the genre of the play as non-illusory, to impart his left-wing message.