The play “An Inspector calls” is written by the author J.B Priestley‚ all three acts are taken place in the dining-room of the Birlings’ house in Brumply‚ an industrial city in the North Midlands. The time it was set was an evening in spring‚ 1912. The play was first produced at the New Theatre in October‚ 1946. The story contains the characters: Arthur Birling‚ Sybil Birling‚ Eric Birling‚ Gerald Croft‚ Edna and INSPECTOR GOOLE. The detective thriller really gets the audience’s attention‚ from the
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horrified‚ Priestley watched as the world lapsed into its second great conflict. This second bout of suffering made Priestley realise that something had to be done. Within a week of the end of the war‚ An Inspector Calls was written‚ expressing the urgency with which change was needed through the Inspector and‚ more importantly‚ Sheila. At the beginning of the play‚ Sheila represents a typical middle-class girl of the time. She has been brought up to simply be a perfect wife. She seems very young‚ excitable
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An Inspector calls - Why it is a successful play Priestly was a successful play writer who wrote a number of successful plays including ‘An Inspector calls’ which has all the qualities I would expect from a good stage play. That are the following an interesting plot which carefully unravels and a good use of dramatic devices such as cliff hangers also the way these devices are used to get the audience more involved. I would examine the play for these qualities by checking to see if it has all
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Throughout the play An Inspector Calls JB Priestly uses the characters to portray the different levels of society. He does this so as to give each class a moral belief and name. The play is called ’An Inspector calls’ and was written in 1946 by J.B. Priestly. It is set in the year 1912‚ in between the time in which it was set and the year it was written two world wars had taken place. In 1912 classes were very different and were socially divided. There was a lot of poor people and very few rich people
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An Inspector Calls How does Priestly develop the Character of Sheila Birling? In an Inspector Calls‚ Sheila Birling’s character is seen as a child that has been raised into an upper-class family and has become familiar with the luxuries and social standing lower classes wouldn’t dream of obtaining‚ her spoilt upbringing and deceiving parents have grounded her in a semi-childhood where she is blinded from the injustice of the class system and the treatment of the lower ‘classed’ majority of the public
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’An Inspector Calls’‚ many contrasts and paradox’s are present and at the centre of them all is the character known as Inspector Goole. However‚ the inspector is not any ordinary inspector. I believe that the inspector is used as a device by Priestley to explore the wider themes of the play and to depict other characters true personalities. This essay will explore some of the techniques Priestley presents the inspector in An Inspector Calls. One of the ways Priestley presents the inspector is through
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An Inspector Calls: Revision notes These notes are to help kick-start your revision of the play for the GCSE exam. Good Luck! Miss Stonehouse Introduction There are a number of references to external events within the play and these could provide the areas which could be developed further. Among these are: The Titanic The emergence of Russia as a world power The outbreak of World War One The importance of the Women’s Rights movement The rise of Socialism
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The finale of An Inspector Calls brought cheers but most of all it brought about confusion. It was obvious this play wasn’t going to lay out a neat plot for the audience; it was going to be a play that stays in your mind for the next few days. The intriguing part of this play was‚ for once‚ everyone didn’t just wake up‚ bleary-eyed to give the cast a meaningless clap. When I looked around‚ I saw people I would have pegged for being gone before the lights had dimmed‚ actually paying attention‚ and
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‘Inspector Goole merely functions as a mouthpiece for Priestley’s ideas.’ What do you think is the Inspector’s function in the play and how does Priestley present him? ‘An Inspector Calls’ written by J.B Priestly is a play with hidden political morals within it. As Priestly believes in Socialism (treating everybody fairly and equally) he uses the Inspector to convey his ideas to the audience to try and encourage them to see his way of thinking by using a family that is Capitalist (that believe
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How does Priestley present the change in Sheila during the course of the play An Inspector Calls? How do you think this change reflects some of Priestley’s ideas? Initially Sheila is thought of to be quite childish and immature at the start of the play as she teases and has a playful argument with her brother and with her mother telling her off saying ‘’Now stop it‚ you two’’. This resembles an ordinary family and so we can see that Sheila is treated as a child and behaves like one through the use
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