The play was written in 1945 at the end of 2 World Wars. It is set in 1912‚ Edwardian England‚ just two years before the first war. This was a very difficult time for England. It was a period when there were many strikes‚ food shortages and great political tension. By 1945 Europe was in ruins and two cities of Japan were destroyed by atomic bombs. During the war‚ the blitz and the evacuation of city children into the country meant that a lot of people were thrown or forced together. As a result
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An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls is set in 1912‚ during the Edwardian Era. It tells the story of a family’s journey from ignorance to enlightenment by using both the plight of an unseen working class girl‚ and the exploration and questions of an (apparently) conscientious police Inspector in an attempt to change the attitudes of the middle class characters created for this play. This drama brings to light the important issue of how the working class is treated by their so-called superiors’
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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
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An Inspector Calls was written by J.B. Priestley after the Second World War. It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings‚ a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands. When the Inspector Goole first enters the scene‚ Mr. Birling is giving some ‘good advice’‚ as he calls it‚ “A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself…The way some of these cranks talk and write now‚ you’d think everybody has look after everybody else‚ as if we’re all mixed up together”
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What is the significance of Inspector Goole in the play? The audience are first introduced to Inspector Goole half way through act 1. He is a mysterious character from the very beginning‚ but we see that he is confident and has an air of authority about him and he is determined to make the family face their guilt. He claims that he has seen the dead body of Eva Smith who died earlier that day after she had ‘swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant’. He is of much significance throughout the play
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What is the Inspectors role in the novel An Inspector Calls? The Inspector plays an intriguing role in J.B Priestley’s Inspector Calls. There are many different interpretations of the Inspectors role in the play but in my opinion he represents the author Priestley without the audience knowing until the end of the play. The Inspector as a character is used to show Priestley’s views of social and political unjust of his time. Priestley does this by giving the inspector power to‚ question each character
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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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INSPECTOR CALLS REVISION NOTES Political views During the 1930’s Priestley became very concerned about the consequences of social inequality in Britain‚ and in 1942 Priestley and others set up a new political party‚ the Common Wealth Party‚ which argued for public ownership of land‚ greater democracy‚ and a new ’morality’ in politics. The party merged with the Labour Party in 1945‚ but Priestley was influential in developing the idea of the Welfare State which began to be put into place at the
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The role of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly. Inspector Goole is probably the most important character in An Inspector Calls. He creates big impressions and somehow reveals all about the Birling family and Gerald Croft. He interrupts their celebrations to question them over the death of Eva Smith/ Daisy Renton. In the process of doing this he makes some of the characters realise what they are really like‚ and how the small actions they had done in the past affected her and
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In Act 1 of “An Inspector Calls” how does J.B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to members of the audience as well as interest them and involve them in the play. “An Inspector Calls” was written in 1945 but the play was set in 1912‚ a few years before the First World War. The place it was set was an imaginary industrial West Midland town called Brumley. The play talks about the class structure in 1912. “An Inspector Calls” shows how big a gap there was between the
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