Inspector General

crane. If an inspector arrived, I would greet them professionally, alert management and an employee representative, and convene the opening conference. I would ask to see the inspector’s credentials and ask for the information on the imminent danger complaint. I would want to know what the inspector plans on looking at, what records they need, and what measures they will take during the inspection such as interviewing employees. I will not produce any information to the inspector until it is…

“You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all. And I can’t see it like that.”, a statement by young Birling, Eric, that clearly demonstrates the ethical difference between the two generations in ‘An Inspector Calls’. Faced with a death case of a girl they all supposedly knew, various reactions came from the members of the Birling family. Different generations are raised and surrounded by different things. Hence, people from different generations have opposed notions like…

Explore ways in which Priestly presents women in “An Inspector Calls” ‘An Inspector calls’ is a play set in 1912 and written in 1945. The starting scene is the Birling family and Gerald Croft. The Birling family are celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling, the eldest daughter, and Gerald Croft. They are later interrupted by someone who claims to be a Police Inspector. The Inspector says that a girl has drunk very strong disinfectant and died in the infirmary two hours ago. He later says…

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…

How does Priestly present Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls? The most perplexing character in J.B Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls is Inspector Goole. Priestley introduces Inspector Goole as a realistic straight forward police inspector. He presents the Inspector into the play using different methods: the language he uses, stage directions, mannerisms, and name through his entrance into the play and his political views and beliefs. Priestley introduces the Inspector as very commanding and…

Inspector Goole – Essay How does the cultural and/or political climate influence the attitudes of the characters with regard to their involvement in the young woman’s downfall? Notes on time period/political climate: • Based in 1912 – written in 1945 by J.B. Priestly • Priestly fought for England in first world war • Priestly broadly sympathized with socialism, however • Inspector Calls is an immediate post-war drama (post WW2) • Takes up economic, social, political issues • 1945 – food was…

responsibility for his actions as his self-important behaviour makes helps to convince himself that he has done nothing wrong this can be shown in his wife when Mrs Birling states “I think she had only herself to blame.” by stating this she reiterates to the Inspector that she feels she has no involvement in the death, by stating 'only herself to blame' in relevance to Eva's death is very cruel and self-centred, as she is clearly trying to revert the blame back to…

Mr. Birling is oblivious to the word ‘responsibility’, his mind seems to reject it as he believes that people should care only for themselves, even as the inspector was questioning him he denies everything and still keeps his childish behaviour. Piestly finds Mr. Birling’s ideals to be insulting and he wrote this play to fight against these sorts of people. Mrs. Birling (Sybil) being Mr. Birling’s ‘social superior’ always tries to correct him ‘Arthur’; you’re not supposed to say such…

Some people view the Inspector as a messenger of God or a Prophet, almost like Jesus; he is warning us that we should change or danger will approach us. Other people might say that since Priestley was not a Christian then why should refer to a holy moral, the Inspector might be viewed as Priestley’s spokesman, who acts as Priestley’s mind or voice expressing his politics. The last speech of the Inspector is the message Priestley is trying to put through, he says…

“An Inspector Calls” is a play written by JB Priestly, that revolves around a theme of blame and responsibility. To convey and show the moral of the play, it is contrasted to compare differences and to emphasize by setting responsibility as a central theme of the play but then providing a fascinating portrait of the way that people can let themselves off the hook and take no responsibility whatsoever. Priestly explicitly differentiates and portrays between those who have accepted their…