An Inspector Calls :: English Literature

An Inspector CallsAn Inspector Calls by J.B Priestley is a routine most an inspectorquestioning a family about the suicide of Eva Smith. At the scratch lineof the play the Birling ar celebrating the engagement of Sheila andGerald. They are interrupted by Inspector Goole who informs them thatan Eva Smith has committed suicide. The Birling family all deny an closeness but Inspector Goole manages to piece together the factsthat in some modal value they were all involved in her death. When InspectorGoole leaves they all question whether he was a real inspector or not.Gerald, who had left the house, comes back with the instruction thathe wasnt a real inspector after all. Then at the very end of the playthe Birling family receive a headphone call that an Eva Smith has justcommitted suicide and an inspector give be coming to question them.John Boynton Priestley was on of the most popular, several(a) andimportant authors of his day. Although he never wrote a bona fidemasterpiece his work was soundless highly valued. he wrote sixteen novelsbut it was as a playwright and political/social thinker that Priestleywas especially important. Politically Priestley was a firm socialistic and he was passionately convinced of the need for social neuter to benefit the poor. During World War II his weekly broadcastsexpressed his corporate trust in ordinary people and he felt that An InspectorCalls helped repel win the election after the war (1945). As asocialist Priestley believed that we are all responsible for eachother.I think that Priestley has written this play to convince people thathis views as a socialist are correct. The fact he wrote the play in1945 yet set the play in 1912 was so he could make the ideas of Mr.Birling seem ridiculous with the use of hindsight. Mr. Birling talksabout how there wont be a war, no problems with worker relations andhow strong the Titanic is. All of Birlings ideas are shot downbecause there was a war with Germany, there was a gene ral strike andthe Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. In gambling this makes theInspectors and Priestleys ideas of socialism seem correct.Priestley also wrote this play to make people ca-ca that they areresponsible for their own actions. Some of the characters in the playdo not accept the fact that they were partly responsible for the deathof Eva Smith. Eric and Sheila knew they had make wrong and regrettedtheir part in her death. Sheila says,And I know Im to blame-and Im desperately sorry.This indicates that Sheila wants to potpourri her ways.