An inspector calls: a critical evaluation
By Wiktor Wojdyla
In this evaluation I will be looking at two contrasting characters in “An inspector calls” and how J.B. Priestly uses that to make us feel sympathetic for them. An inspector calls is a play written in 1945 by J.B. Priestly. It is set at the begging of the 20th century (1900-1915) and has themes surrounding responsibility, class, age and gender differences. There also different types of contrasting characters such as Eric and Sybil Birling.
Eric is one of my favourite characters because I agree with most of his points. Eric is part of the newer generation of the Birling family. Arthur and Sybil Birling are the parents and they are stuck in the past. Arthur only cares about his business and his family, he doesn't like the fact that everyone should be responsible for one another. “His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her …show more content…
In this act most things about who Sybil really is, is revealed. It shows how classist, ignorant and snobbish she is. She lies many times to defend herself and always tries to shift the blame on to someone else. With quotes such as: "I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class -" She even tries to shift the blame to her own husband. "Oh, stop it both of you. And please remember before you start accusing me of anything again that it wasn't I who turned her out of employment – which probably began it all." Lastly she shifts the blame on to Eric (not knowing it was him) to try to get rid of the blame once and for all. "I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have. If as she said, he didn’t belong to her class, and was some drunken young idler, that’s all the more reason he shouldn't escape." She mentions class again in this quote and shows how far she is willing to go to not be
By Wiktor Wojdyla
In this evaluation I will be looking at two contrasting characters in “An inspector calls” and how J.B. Priestly uses that to make us feel sympathetic for them. An inspector calls is a play written in 1945 by J.B. Priestly. It is set at the begging of the 20th century (1900-1915) and has themes surrounding responsibility, class, age and gender differences. There also different types of contrasting characters such as Eric and Sybil Birling.
Eric is one of my favourite characters because I agree with most of his points. Eric is part of the newer generation of the Birling family. Arthur and Sybil Birling are the parents and they are stuck in the past. Arthur only cares about his business and his family, he doesn't like the fact that everyone should be responsible for one another. “His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her …show more content…
In this act most things about who Sybil really is, is revealed. It shows how classist, ignorant and snobbish she is. She lies many times to defend herself and always tries to shift the blame on to someone else. With quotes such as: "I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class -" She even tries to shift the blame to her own husband. "Oh, stop it both of you. And please remember before you start accusing me of anything again that it wasn't I who turned her out of employment – which probably began it all." Lastly she shifts the blame on to Eric (not knowing it was him) to try to get rid of the blame once and for all. "I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have. If as she said, he didn’t belong to her class, and was some drunken young idler, that’s all the more reason he shouldn't escape." She mentions class again in this quote and shows how far she is willing to go to not be