English Essay HW

English Essay HW Inspector Goole was introduced in Act One, when he had unexpectedly turned up at the house of the Birling family, intending to gather information regarding the death of a young pregnant women, Eva Smith. Throughout the play, J.B Priestley uses a variety and range of techniques to present the Inspector into the play, as well as stage directions and mannerisms. This essay will provide an insight into these techniques. My first point of interest focuses on the image that the Inspector creates on the reader. “The Inspector need not to be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties, dressed in a plain darkish suit of the period. He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person be addresses before actually speaking. “This suggests that Inspector Goole is a man of authority, despite his size he is still able to intimidate a rather high-class household. This reflects later in the play as we establish that he is not prepared to tip toe around the Birling’s. He is a very blunt man, straight to the point, and is not effected by anything that Mr Birling says. “I’m sorry, but you asked me a question” and “It’s my duty to ask questions” are two examples of how straight to the point he is. We acknowledge that J.B Priestley intends to portray him as a man of intelligence and someone who is prepared to argue with anyone, and can justify with his rights/beliefs. He forces the other characters to be wrong. Secondly, Priestley seems to present him with intelligence. The Inspector uses a clever method in which he targets each character and bombards them with questions in order to acquire information. In these conversations we discover that the Inspector can be very persuasive and controlling. He says, “And so you used the power you had, as a daughter of a good customer and also of a man well known in the town, to punish the girl just