The Importance Of Stage Directions In Priestley's An Inspector Calls

The stage directions tells us a lot that you may wonder about in the world of the play. Priestly hints out that “[it has to be set in] the dining room of a fairly large suburban house.” This suggest that the Birling family is rich but not fully rich because they are not living in a mansion so they are not the upper class in the class system. The word ‘fairly’ is an adverb the writer as put the word fairly in because it conveys that Mr birling is a business man who still works this helps the reader understand he is new money and he may be trying to fit in with the rich. Furthermore, the Birling family is trying too hard to be upper class because “[they have] good solid furniture of the period […] but not cosy and homelike” Priestly does that to make us realise that the birlings are new money. We know that the family is ostentatious when it says ‘but …show more content…
Priestly comments” [the] lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives [...] brighter and harder.” The writer asserts that the family dinner party has had a dramatic change because the lighting goes from pink which symbolises the love between Gerald Croft and Sheila Birling (the daughter of Arthur birling.) The writer may have done that to make a completely different atmosphere when the inspector arrives. The change of lighting effects the atmosphere because it brings a dramatic effect because the light was peaceful then it went hard because the family is being scrutinised to find characters imperfections. The word ‘hard’ is an adjective the importance of that word ruins the mode which makes the watchers wonder that characters will be questioned bit to bit and something will be unravelled. The lighting change is dramatic irony because the watchers know something bad is occurring and it acts like an empathic moment. The lighting change confirms that the mode is killed because of the bright hard light. The hard light foreshadows the