1912‚ although it was written in 1945; it is set the seemingly respectable town of Brumley. Living on the edge of the town is the Birling family; this consists of Mr Birling‚ Mrs Birling‚ Sheila Birling and Eric birling. At the beginning of the play the family is having a small meal to celebrate the engagement of Gerald Croft and Sheila‚ The Story starts as the Birling family is having a meal when unexpectedly an inspector rings at the door. The inspector explains to the family that a young woman
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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 Shelia Birling and well-known bachelor Gerald Croft. Just as Arthur Birling is half way through his memorable speech unannounced an inspector named inspector Goole abruptly enters
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offered her during the summer months. Consequently‚ I believe that he is the least responsible for Eva’s suicide; the reason being the joy he bestowed her during the affair. One of the characters with a more negative effect in Smith’s life is Sheila Birling. After being the cause of her being fired from her job at a department store and
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KEY FACTS Full Title: An Inspector Calls Genre: Mystery drama Setting: 1912; a comfortable home in Brumley‚ England Climax: Gerald returns to the Birling home after Goole has left‚ to report that the Inspector wasn’t actually a real inspector‚ and to hypothesize that the whole thing was a hoax—that there was no single girl that all of the Birlings had offended‚ and no suicide that they precipitated. HISTORICAL AND LITERARY CONTEXT When Written: 1945 Where Written: England When Published: 1945
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Eva’s letter The Inspector tells Mr. Birling that Eva Smith/Daisy Renton “left a letter…and a sort of diary”. The letter could be to her nearest relative or to Gerald Croft. Write - as you imagine Eva would have done - the letter and diary entries (between 1910 and 1912) for the key events in her life‚ from her starting to work for Birling & Co. to her suicide. Year and month What happens September 1910 Eva sacked by Birling & Co. December 1910 Eva employed by Milwards. Late January 1911 Eva
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time the play was set. J.B Priestley uses the characters to express his views on the issue of social responsibility‚ morality and about class divisions with many themes including greed‚ regret‚ guilt and blame. ’’An Inspector Calls’’ is about the Birling family who are quite wealthy. They are celebrating their daughter’s engagement to her fiancé‚ Gerald. Then an inspector arrives and breaks up the party and starts to question the family about a young girl called Eva Smith who had killed herself by
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How does Priestly show in his presentation of Mrs Birling that she often pretends to be something that she is not? Priestley’s portrays Mrs Birling as a snobbish‚ cold-hearted and unsympathetic woman but she pretends to be sympathetic towards Eva Smiths’ death. Yet she was the one who worked in the women’s charity organisation and refused to help her in the first place - highlighting her harsh and uncaring nature. Also‚ Mrs Birling feigns to be oblivious towards her son’s drinking and pretends that
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An Inspector Calls is a play written by J. B. Priestley in 1945 about the prosperous Birling family being confronted by a Police Inspector who reveals during the play each family member’s involvement in a young woman’s suicide. The play has socialist undertones‚ as Priestly was a prominent socialist himself. The play is set in spring 1912 in the dining room of the Birlings house in Brumley‚ just before the First World War. It was first performed 1 October 1946 to an audience who had just lived through
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and also enabling him to use several of Birling’s speeches at the beginning to establish him as a pompous and arrogant character. Dramatic irony is used by Priestley from the start of Act One. At the start of the play‚ we are introduced to Arthur Birling as a "heavy-looking‚ rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech." He is proud of his achievements‚ and misses no opportunity to remind others of his exploits‚ such as the chance of being knighted. Arthur’s family
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of responsibility. Priestly uses the young Sheila Birling‚ a carefree lady‚ to drive the play forward. Her importance shows the audience the need for a social change from gender equality and generation differences‚ almost becoming a ’Second Inspector’ in the play. The Importance of Sheila is used to illustrates the Social Divide in 1912‚ between the upper-class members and the lower-class members. Considering that Mr. Birling‚ who owns "Birling and
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