effectively through several techniques. An Inspector Calls is about a family called The Birlings. It focuses on the recent suicide of a young girl called Eva Smith‚ who also calls herself Daisy Renton. During the play‚ the Inspector helps the Birlings to realise that they were all partially responsible for her tragic death. The first scene in the play has a happy and exciting tone as Shelia Birling and Gerald Croft have just announced their engagement: “At this moment they have all had a
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Goodnight.” These last words from the inspector are the antithesis of what Mr Birling said‚ Mr Birling says “Every man for himself”‚ and the inspector says the complete opposite ’we are responsible for each other.’ The inspector is very uncanny. This means strange but familiar. He is systematic to how he goes round the whole of the Birling family. He is omnipotent (All Knowing) because he tricks the whole of the Birling family into thinking that the inspector know everything about this Eva Smith
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Priestley presents Inspector Goole as someone who will contradict the views of Mr. Birling- he does this through his timing of Goole’s entrance in Act I. Goole’s entrance interrupts Mr Birling speech‚ in which he discusses his selfish views on how ”a man has to mind his own business and look after himself”. This not only characterises Mr Birling as selfish but also illustrates to the audience that these views are false as a “sharp ring of a front doorbell” interrupts them. The “sharp” sound of the
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seems desperate for his father’s approval‚ and for Mr Birling to show any sort of affection or love towards Eric‚ which Mr Birling is oblivious to ‘Because you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble’. However‚ by the end of the play‚ Eric does not appear to care what his father thinks of him‚ as when Mr Birling says to Eric ‘You’re the one I blame for this’‚ and Eric replies ‘I’ll bet I am… I don’t care now’. If Mr Birling had said that to Eric in the beginning of Act 1‚ Eric
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the use of lighting so that the audience have an immediate impression of a ‘heavily comfortable’ household. Before the Inspector arrives the lighting is ‘pink and intimate’ representing the special occasion in which the Birling family are feeling very pleased about as Shelia Birling is marrying into a higher class. We then get told that when the Inspector arrives the lighting should then be ‘brighter and harder’ which foreshadows the events to come in the play‚ and the reality of the situation‚ as
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effect in showing how Mrs Birling does not understand her own children. Like Arthur‚ Sybil is so unfeeling that she fails to see the troubles faced by her children and seems somewhat uninterested in their lives. Mrs Birling‚ like her husband‚ also abused her power‚ authority and influence to ensure that Eva Smith was not helped by the Brimley Women’s Charity Organisation. She admits herself as being ‘prejudiced against her case’ because Eva called her ‘Mrs Birling’. Mrs Birling felt that this was a
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his interviewees‚ especially with his conversations with Mr Birling‚ mainly due to the fact that they are both very overpowering and dominating‚ so when put together sparks fly as the two fight for the upper hand‚ this creates tension as we want to see each of their reactions of the others‚. The whole inspector’s presence creates tension‚ from how he acts and even down to the way he interrogates throughout the investigation of the Birlings. The way that Priestley introduces the inspector is very
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In my work on J.B Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ I am looking for evidence on who the inspector is. I believe that Priestley didn’t want us to know for sure the identity of the inspector; he just wanted us to speculate. First of all‚ I believe he could be a spirit‚ moreover‚ a ghoul. The definition of a ghoul in the dictionary is ‘a spirit interested in morbid things’. The fact his name is Inspector Goole‚ a homophone of ghoul‚ provides more evidence that he could be a ghoul. The fact he keeps
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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
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An inspector calls was written by J.B.Priestly‚ Priestley presents the character of the inspector as a defense of socialism as Priestley was a defensor of the socialist party. The play was set in 1912 which is also linked with 1945 as it is about the same century. the play transmits a lot of political and social messages as Priestley believed in socialism and used his plays to convince people of his way of thinking. The play is about a family who are in a lunch room celebrating their daughter’s engagement
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