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    beginning of the extract the Inspector says “She wasn’t very pretty ... very pretty.” In my opinion the Inspector says this to try and give the Birlings a ‘guilt trip’. Mr. Birling reacts by almost telling the Inspector off‚ as if he were a child‚ “That’s enough of that”‚ it sounds like something he would say to Sheila or Eric. The reason he says this is most probably because he feels that he is better and more important than the Inspector and that he can tell the Inspector what to do. The reason he

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    ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- An inspector calls JB Priestley wrote the play ‘An Inspector calls’ in 1912‚ just when the Second World War was over. He was trying to make people see that a socialist government would work by voicing his socialist views. His is written in a very critical way about the class system‚ highlighting how it is the upper class causing problems. Priestley speaks about women’s place in society too‚

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    Section1: Research who J.B Priestly was; make a list of notes summarising details about him‚ his beliefs and his writing. About John Boynton Priestley: John Boynton Priestley was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 13 September 1894. His father was a headmaster and his mother died when he was just two years old‚ leaving his father to remarry four years later. He grew up into a family and a wider group of friends who enjoyed the arts. As he grew up he was caught up in in-depth

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    Emmanuel Omojola: An Inspector Calls: In the play “An Inspector Calls‚” Priestley uses Mr Birling’s daughter Shelia to display society’s thoughts of the elite class‚ and how her actions and behavior emulate Priestley’s ideas. In this essay I will evaluate how Priestley delineates a change in responsibility in the character Sheila. Primarily‚ Sheila is characterized as quite irresponsible for a young lady in the elite class‚ however as the play progresses she emerges to become one of the most responsible

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    An Inspector calls An inspector calls was written by J.B Priestley in 1934 and performed in 1945‚ 33 years after the war. But the play itself is set around 1912 just before the war broke out‚ the play is a neutralistic‚ mystery drama about a middle class family named the Birlings who all have a mischievous secret that involves the death of Eva Smith‚ which teaches people a lesson about social justice. When the play opens the Birling family are cheerfully celebrating the engagement of the beloved

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    How does Priestley show the importance of the Inspector to the play as a whole in ’An Inspector Calls’? The Inspector in ’An Inspector Calls’ serves a variety of important functions within the play. He makes the Birlings recognise their faults and the consequences of their actions; highlights the importance of people taking responsibility for one another; and also serves as an all-seeing‚ God-like figure‚ giving the impression that those who do not take responsibility for their crimes will be punished

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    to hear the rest of the conversation between the family‚ Gerald and the inspector.With close reference to the extract‚ show how Priestly creates mood and atmosphere for an audience. In this scene the inspector is interrogating Mrs Birling. Priestly creates mood and atmosphere when the inspector mentions why Eva came to Mrs Birling’s charity organisation for help. “It was because she was going to have

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    An Inspector Calls is a play set in 1912. In the play‚ Gerald and Sheila are enjoying an engagement party when intrudes a ‘police inspectorwho reveals that a lower class woman drank disinfectant and died. The inspector gradually reveals that every member of the family plays a part in the girl’s death. What is important about this play‚ and at first seems irrelevant‚ is that it is set in 1912. What must be remembered is that today if a young woman was struggling with the dilemmas that Eva Smith

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    Who‚ in your opinion‚ is the most responsible for Eva Smith’s death?  An Inspector Calls was written by JB Priestley as a means of illustrating the flaws in the society of 1945 and the consequences that these flaws could bear. Priestley exemplifies this message most notably through the characters in the play. For example‚ although Eva Smith may not necessarily be a ‘real’ character‚ she is used as a representation of the entire working class community. This is central to the play because it means

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    In the Play “An inspector calls”‚ J.B Priestly presents the characters to take responsibility in different forms. Sheila Birling changes the way she takes responsibility throughout the play‚ including times before Inspector Goole arrives‚ during the presence of Goole and after the inspector leaves. Before the Inspector arrives‚ we are told that Sheila Birling is o be married with Gerald and there is a celebration being held at the Birling’s house‚ Sheila is known to be very irresponsible before

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