An Inspector Calls Essay Examples

‘An Inspector’s Calls’ is a play that was written by J. B. Priestley in 1945 but set in Edwardian England 1912. The play is set in a fictional industrial city in the North Midlands called Brumley. The fictional industrial city of Brumley would have been typical of many towns, as in the town there would […]

I have recently been studying your play ‘An Inspector Calls’ in my school and would greatly appreciate it if you would take time out of your busy schedule to read my thoughts on the following. Firstly I would like to talk about the overall message of the play. Secondly I would like to discuss Sheila’s […]

Eva died two hours before the inspector came. She died because she drank a lot of “strong disinfectant” which burnt her “inside out”. Inspector Goole goes to the Birling’s house to confront each one of them and place responsibility on them. Though the inspector does not tell us it, it is quite obvious that he […]

In Act 1 of “An Inspector Calls” how does J. B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to members of the audience as well as interest them and involve them in the play. “An Inspector Calls” was written in 1945 but the play was set in 1912, a few years before […]

Unities the ‘unities’ from Classical Greek drama are based around three major things: time, place and action Introduction ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a play which explores social inequality in postwar Britain. Priestley uses many dramatic devices such as stage directions, dramatic irony, lighting and setting to expose what he perceives to be the ills of […]

The story of an inspector calls was set in 1945 and was written by J. B Priestly. The story is basically that an inspector comes to investigate a murder and question all of the Birling family to find out who was to blame. In this essay I will compare the three productions of the play […]

In the play ‘An Inspector calls’ JB Priestley tries to put a message across to the readers that everyone should be responsible for everyone else. In this essay I will be explaining how he sends this message to the readers by using the characters as bad examples and saying the message through the characters in […]

The play An Inspector Calls is about a pre-war family called, the Birling’s. They are celebrating their daughters engagement, when an inspector arrived asking them personal questions. The play was written in 1945 a time of exhaustion and regret when both wars were over, but it was set in 1912. With the play being set […]

“One Eva Smith has gone – but there are millions of Eva and John Smiths still left with us”. Priestley’s strong views on “acting like a community” were cleverly put into the character of the inspector and the opposite was given to the more Laissez Faire opinionated characters such as Mr and Mrs Birling. The […]

Dear Mr Priestley, I have chosen to stage your play, ‘An Inspector Calls’ as I found it very appealing. The setting of the play was really attractive as it was written at the end of the Second World War. People wanted to entertain themselves after so much tension and stress during the War. So a […]

An Inspector calls is a play set in 1912 Edwardian England, in this time period there was a large social divide between upper class and lower class. “An inspector calls” is about a Higher classed family having a strong connection with a young woman who has commit suicide, with a suspicious inspector uncovering the plot […]

An Inspector Calls is a play written by J. B Priestley in 1944 and was first performed in 1946. Priestley set the play in 1912, a time of change and conflict between Edwardian Capitalist values and emerging Socialist Ideals. Throughout the play Priestley conveys political messages, (in the limelight at the time), by creating microcosms […]

In Act I of An Inspector Calls how does J B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in the play? An Inspector Calls was written by J B Priestley in 1945 at the end of World War II but […]

John Boyton priestly wrote the play ‘An inspector calls’ in 1945, but the actual story is set in 1912, two years before the world war. The reason for this is to show the events, which have already happened that the audience already have knowledge of, such as the sinking of the titanic and the outbreak […]

The audiences first impression of the Inspector is from the title itself, ‘An Inspector Calls’, which gives the idea; to the audience that the Inspector will play a vital role in the coming stages of the play however we soon learn J. B. Priestley’s real motives and how he uses the Inspector as his mouthpiece […]

An Inspector Calls was written in 1945 but is set in 1912. The gap in time between when it was written and when it is set gives Priestley the ability to pose questions such as why the terrible events that occurred between the events did so.The play itself is a highly scaled down version of […]

Priestley is extremely effective when dramatising his socialist views, such as the one above, in the novel ‘An Inspector calls’. I see this play as a machine, and in this machine there are different parts to it, which make up the whole play. For example the inspector, the main character in the play, would be […]

J.B Priestley wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945. The play is set in 1912, in an Edwardian dining room, before the World Wars, when social class was more important in England. We went to see a modern production at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre. It is a morality play that focuses on how a person’s actions over […]

In this essay I intend to find out who is most to blame for the death of Eva Smith alias Daisy Renton. There are five main characters and each one of them is to blame for Eva Smith’s misfortunes. Firstly we have Mr A. Birling who sacked Eva because she asked for more pay and […]

The Inspector’s arrival at the Birling household comes as an unwelcome surprise to the family. He arrives as the Birlings are celebrating an engagement; Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft of Crofts limited are to be married. The Birlings and Gerald have just finished a grand celebratory dinner and are in high spirits when Edna, the […]

‘An Inspector Calls’ is a play written by J. B. Priestley. It is set in 1912 but written in 1945. The play is written in the style or genre of a detective mystery play. It starts with a death that they believe to be a suicide, and the plot of the play is used to […]

‘An Inspector Calls’ is set in 1912, but was written by J. B Priestly in 1945. In the play, the Titanic is a week away from it’s maiden voyage – when it hit an iceberg and sank. Mr Birling, the head of the household, says that: “The Titanic. .. sails next week.. . unsinkable, absolutely […]