The play starts with the entire Birling Family sitting around having drinks to celebrate the daughter Sheila’s engagement to a wealthy businessman named Gerald. The play delivers a serious message about society and it revolves around the questioning of Eva Smith’s death and how everyone is partly to blame. Mr Birling and Sheila respond to the inspector in very different ways and Priestley clearly wants the audience to consider their outlook and perhaps question their own choices in life. As the play progresses, we realise that everybody is partly to blame for the tragic suicide of Eva Smith. However Mr and Mrs Birling never actually do take the blame and keep making excuses for their actions.
Millie Johns, 10ACO 2nd November 2008 “An Inspector Calls” By J.B Priestley The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ is all about investigating a girl’s awful death. The mysterious inspector strips away information from the characters to make them realise that they have all played a part in this harmless girl’s life. The play is set in an industrial town in the North Midlands in Brumley. Written after World War Two there is very much the aspect of class. This is a very big part of the play.
In Act One Of An Inspector Calls, How Does JB Priestley Present The Character Of Birling? ‘An Inspector Calls’ is about a respectful family of high society, being interrogated about a death of a girl that committed suicide. Little did they know that they are all connected to this girl one way or another, they are all part of the chain of events that occurred in her life, each partly responsible. One by one as they confess their stories to ‘Inspector Goole’ they come to terms with the sudden tragedy. But when the Inspector leaves, they soon find out there was no real inspector in the first place… Priestley had a purpose.
What is the purpose of the inspector in the play “An Inspector Calls”? An inspector calls is written by J.B Priestley and is about a prosperous manufacturer named Arthur Birling. In the early years of last century, he is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter’s engagement. Into this cosy and happy scene intrudes a police inspector called Inspector Goole. He is apparently investigating the suicide of a young working class woman and under the pressure of his interrogation every member of the family turns out to have a shameful secret that links them to her death.
“She’d had a lot to say—far too much—so she had to go.” Gerald Croft concurs that Birling “couldn’t have done anything else.” Birling is starting to become a little unsettled by the Inspector, and he asks Goole to spell his name, which he does. Birling then tries to threaten the Inspector by K mentioning that he is an “old friend” of the Chief Constable, Colonel Roberts. The Inspector simply remarks, “I don’t see much of him.” Eric comments that, were it I up to him, he would have let Eva Smith stay at the factory, which provokes an angry putdown from Birling, who then tries to close the case: “I don’t see we need to tell the Inspector anything more.” J Sheila enters from the drawing room to find out what is happening, and she is surprised to see the Inspector.
He like Mr Birling wants to protect his own interests he did however have some genuine feeling for Daisy Renton as we can see he is very moved when he hears of her death. He tells Inspector Goole that he arranged for her to live in his friend's flat "because I was sorry for her;". Despite this, in Act III he tries to come up with as much evidence as possible to prove that the Inspector is a fake - because that would get him off the hook. It is Gerald who confirms that the local force has no officer by the name of Inspector Goole, he realises it may not have been the same girl and he finds out from the infirmary that there has not been a suicide case in months. He seems to throw his energies into "protecting" himself rather than "changing" himself (unlike Sheila).
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