How Is Inspector Goole Presented In An Inspector Calls

During the time An Inspector Calls was written the author wanted to encourage the audience to feel and express their emotions they had from the time leading up to 1945. Historical events happened between 1912 and 1945, which helped the author create Inspector Goole. Inspector Goole was portrayed as a sham and it was hard for the other characters to believe what he was doing because he already knew so much. The author created someone in the play that the Conservative family would dislike. He had to get the message to the audience that it is no longer 1912 and that times have changed. In the audience present time the world started believe toward socialism. They wanted to help one another and support those that could not support themselves.
Inspector Goole gave the audience a taste of how the wealthy in 1912 treated the lower class to get what they wanted. He forced the rich family to say the things they had done to the unprivileged in hoping that they would change their way of life. He did this especially for Mr. Birling’s character. The author made him sound foolish in some of the things he would say to catch the audience’s attention. For example the author has the Inspector ask the different family members about the individual that died and their stories all had the same ending except Eric’s. Mrs. Birling explains to the Inspector what she told Eva Smith that had sought help from her committee, “I’ll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility” (2.1.170-171). Mrs. Birling is one of the characteristics of wealth and does not see that this woman is her problem and that the money used to help her could be used for something else and that she could have the father of the child take care of it. The purpose of this was to express the negativity that wealthy individuals had on the poor. This idea can also be expressed when discussing the relevance of this play to a contemporary American
Our society has already been through many of these changes and unless researching more about the play would have a harder time understanding why the characters are portrayed the way they are. They could however view the difference in good vs. evil. Even in todays society we see good people get punished for others bad habits. Eric was trying to do the right thing and marry Eva Smith after he conceived a child out of wedlock but she did not want him to give up his life for a child. She had already been through so many awful things in her life that she did not want to bring him down with her. She had lost several jobs due to bad individuals such as the Birling family. This thought can be relevant to an American audience by the conversation between Birling and Gerald during act one of the play. Birling and Gerald are having a discussion and Gerald says, “You seem to be a very well-behaved family to me” (1.1.60-61). Birling responds in, “we think we are”(1.1.62). There is no escaping the fact that the Birling family knew they were selfish people and brought those that they did not care about down. They were not well behaved to say the