Essays on an inspector calls
Introduction:The question asked was: Who, in your opinion, is most responsible for the death of Eva Smith. Use evidence from the text to justify your answer. The best way to answer this question is to firstly find out what each person did to contribute to the death of Eva Smith due to this play being […]
An Inspector Calls is a play based in 1912, although it was written in 1946 by JB Priestley. Priestley was a deeply political writer with a strong favour for Communism. Communism is the political belief that there is no rich or poor and that everybody is equal, indeed Communists also believe that there should be […]
In Act 1 of âAn Inspector Callsâ 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. âAn Inspector Callsâ was written in 1945 but the play was set in 1912, a few years before […]
Eva died two hours before the inspector came. She died because she drank a lot of âstrong disinfectantâ which burnt her âinside outâ. Inspector Goole goes to the Birlingâs 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 the play An Inspector Calls, a message is being portrayed to the reader by J. B Priestley and in my opinion, the main bearer of this message is the inspector. Being of an ambiguous nature, he appears to live in a different world to the family with whom he deals; the Birlings and it […]
An Inspector Calls was written by JB Priestley and is set in 1912 but it was written in 1945. The author uses historic knowledge to his advantage. At the beginning of the play, Birling gives a speech which is extremely ironic ‘I say there isn’t a chance of war. . . the Titanic- she sails […]
âAn Inspectorâs Callsâ 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 […]
An Inspector Calls is set in 1912, just before the beginning of World War One, however it was written in 1944-5, and was first performed in 1945 as the Second World War ended. Priestley survived the First World War, but bitterly disliked it. So when the Second World War came around, he began to question […]
In this essay I intend to show, and provide sufficient evidence, as to the vast amount of dramatic tension the Inspector seems to create and his role in the dramatic effectiveness of the play ‘An Inspector Calls’. J. B. Priestley wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945, after both world wars and the sinking of the […]
“An inspector calls” is a play written by J. B. Priestly in 1946, but is set in 1912. These two dates contrast quire well for a number of reasons. The economy in 1912 was very different because everyone cared about themselves before other people and there was a lot more money in circulation. This made […]
In this Essay I will be trying to point out J. B. Priestley’s intention in writing ‘An Inspector Calls’. I will also be showing how modern interpretations of the original, support his message o the audience. J. B. Priestley wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1944 but it was first performed in 1945 in Moscow. It […]
‘An inspector Calls’ was written in September 1945. This story takes place in 1912, right before the 1st World War in Brumley, an industrial city in the North Midlands. Priestly set the play in 1912 on purpose, so that he could allow the characters to be naive about what was going to happen in the […]
Guilt is not the major issue put forward in the play. The major issue is how class-conscious England has been put forward in the play and how the Capitalists and Socialists are shown. Birling is a ruthless industrialist who worked extremely hard to make his money. Birling is almost the stereotype/caricature of the capitalistic businessman. […]
This particular play was set in 1912, on the week of the maiden voyage and sinking of the Titanic. Many techniques were used to make the play dramatic, engrossing and meaningful to the audience both back when it was fist released and also to this date. Stage directions play a huge part of any play. […]
The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ is written by J. B. Priestley. The play is set in 1912. To understand the play fully, the reader/viewer of the play has to understand its historical context. 1912 was the year that the titanic set sail, the year that the Suffragette movement started campaigning for women’s rights in society. It […]
From reading the first 10 pages of “An Inspector Calls” I can infer several different ways in which J. B Priestley shows the reader that the play is set in the Edwardian period. Priestley has established the social period by using numerous techniques such as the way he portrays the characters, their use of language, […]
An inspector calls is a play that was written in 1945 by J. B. Priestley. When the play was written the war in Europe had just ended, as had the coalition government that had been in action during the war. This gave people a chance to vote for a new government, a vote that the […]
`Inspector Calls’, is a story in which an inspector, in this case Inspector Goole, visits the Birling household. At the beginning of the story the inspector broke into the dinner party, where Mr. Birling, Mrs. Birling, Gerald, and Sheila were enjoying a good chat. Eric, the son of the family had been sent upstairs, because […]
‘An Inspector Calls’ opens with the Birling family holding a dinner party celebrating their daughter’s engagement to Gerald Croft. When the Inspector arrives, he tells them the news of Eva Smiths death, and subsequently questions them all on the matter. The Inspector has a different effect on the different members of the family, and they […]
Inspector Goole id the main character in the play An Inspector Calls which was written by J. B. Priestley in 1945 (after the two world wars) however was set in 1912 (just before the first war) a time when politics and the economy were just starting to re-establish themselves . It can be interpreted in […]
‘Inspector Calls’ was written so that we see what effect things like the class system in general had on people like Eva Smith. Exploitation of the working class caused havoc on many lives turning them out of control.A good place to set the scene would be in an industrial town, which is where it is […]
John Boynton Priestley whom was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, wrote the play “An inspector calls”. This play was written in 1944/5 when Priestley set about writing ‘at top speed, finishing it in a week’. The time when he wrote this play it was a time of war (the Second World War) there where no London […]
