Inspector

An Inspector Calls summer work J.B Priestley creates mood and atmosphere between the characters in the presented extract by giving the characters unique reactions and responses towards Inspector Goole. In Mrs. Birlings response towards the inspector, she seems to be more stern and forward, above everyone else. “You have no power to change my mind” makes the audience think that Mrs. Birling has power over the inspector, and that she has the choice on whether or not to further respond to the…

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…

“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…

current political standpoint and reconsider the labour party for power. In contrast to this, is the Inspector who is clearly a socialist. The Inspector reminds us of our responsibilities for each other: 'All intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.' By making the Inspector say this, Priestley shows how sensible the socialist ideal is. He makes people…

John B Priestley’s play, “An Inspector Calls’ was written after the Second World War during the Victorian and Edwardian period. During this period was when division between the behaviour of the older and younger generations could be clearly recognised. The older generation consist of Mr and Mrs Birling whom throughout the play fail to admit that they had any part in the death of Eva, as their reputation is the only thing that concerns them. Conversely the younger generation, Sheila and Eric feel…

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…

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…

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…

The comedy The Government Inspector was the first of its kind. It was a comedy made up of realistic characters meant to comment on society and promote change. The front page of Nikolai Gogol’s work begins with a popular saying, “If your face is askew don’t blame the mirror.” This quote sets up his purpose and message quite aptly. Gogol wanted his play to be a reflection of real life in Russia so his audience could see the skewness of Russian life. As a scholar once noted about Gogol, “His is the…

At the start of the play the Birling family is celebrating happily Sheila's engagement to Gerald Croft. However, the mood changes when Inspector Goole arrives and informs them about the suicide of a young woman named Eva Smith. Sheila Birling is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Birling is described at the start as "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited", most probably because of her engagement to Gerald Croft. Her hopes and plans for the future are to have a…