An Inspector Calls

HOW IS THE THEME OF WEALTH PRESENTED THROUGHOUT THE INSPECTOR CALLS? Priestley presents the theme of wealth from the very beginning of the play. Straight away we as an audience are introduced to the immediate setting- the Birling’s family dining room. Everything about this lavish room implies wealth, from the “good solid furniture”, to the cut glass, and to the opulent surroundings. Even the family’s needs are catered to in the form of the practically invisible Edna, and undoubtedly other…

and social responsibility wasn’t accepted by them. In the play he used the character of Inspector to challenge main characters as well as to try to make them feel responsible so they change. We can also see how younger generation tries to encourage older ones to feel responsible. Priestley uses Inspector to pass his own ideas about social responsibility. He could be seen as narrator…

go to bed she refuses and sits down to listen to the inspector, and when the story of Eva smith is being told she is disgusted at how this girl was treated and wishes that she could helper her or apologise at least. Actually what I have noticed is that there is a lot of generationism. The conflicts between the older generation and the younger generation show the play. Although there isn't much conflict at the start of the play, as the Inspector puts pressure on each character the atmosphere…

“My Lord, Richard, you know we don’t have that kind of money. You have known this family for years, and know Marlene would never hurt anyone.” Jerry defended her. “Do you know something about an affair with a man named Frank?” Richard asked. “No, of course not, they were just friends and nothing more. Marlene loved the children and me. She is a good wife and mother.” “They wouldn’t tell me about everything they have against her. My friend at the PD said a Mrs. Lincoln…

A teacher, Mr. Dukane, from a large suburban high school in Wisconsin, was dismissed with cause after an event that created a dangerous situation for students. He gave an assignment where students were to create, perform, and videotape a storyboard as part of his media course. While he did give prior approval of the storyboard content to students, he unfortunately did not supervise the students in this off-of-school-grounds activity, nor did he inform the administration, attendance office, or…

At the beginning of the play Arthur Birling is described as a “heavy looking rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech” . This shows that he is confident, and tries to seem of high class and that he is the man of the house. We can see that he tries to seem “portentous” when he says “You ought to like this port Gerald, ...Finchley told me it's exactly the same port your father gets from him”. When he say its the same port that Geralds…

the opposing attitude of the Inspector attempts to teach the Birling’s a lesson on social responsibility. Mr Birling…

commit suicide by drinking a strong disinfectant, killing herself and her unborn baby. - Inspector Goole The inspector is initially described as creating "an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties, dressed in a plain darkish suit. He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking.“ The inspector…

then discarded her, basically made her homeless). At the end of the play, Gerald is the only one who remains calm and collected and returns having figured out that the inspector was not a real inspector. Mrs. Birling admires him for him having 'argued this very cleverly.'He is crucial to the plot because of his evidence of the inspector being fake makes the whole night a 'joke' and there will, therefore, be no consequences for the group. Similar to the two older Birlings, Gerald does not learn…

Inspector Muggins leant back in his chair and took a long drag on his cigar, with the contented air of a man who is paid to do nothing but sit in an office and drink whisky and puff on cigars. Which is exactly what Muggins did. The town Muggins lived in was a quiet one, so there was rarely any need for him to get off his considerable bottom and lumber off to some crime scene. So it came as something of a surprise when the phone rang. So much of a surprise, in fact, that Muggins fell off his…