The Government Inspector

“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…

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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…

How does Priestley present the relationship between Mr Birling and Sheila? In the play an Inspector Calls, by J.B Priestley, the 2 generations end up with very different view on capitalism and socialism with the younger generation changing towards the more socialist attitude. The relationship between Mr Birling and Sheila symbolises the differences between these two world views. Priestley wanted the change to happen from a capitalist to a socialist society. Mr Birling…

presented in “Of Mice and Men” and “An Inspector Calls” Society is not perfect, it never was. So it is not in any way surprising that many people would try to rectify these mistakes, and improve their society. John Steinbeck and J. B. Priestley wanted to just that. They produced works that show the effects of these mistakes if they are not rectified, in hope of raising awareness about society 's own impurities. Two of these works are "Of Mice and Men" and "An Inspector Calls", by John…

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…

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…

“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…