An Inspector Calls Essay Examples Page 3

In the play, “An Inspector Calls” I am about to examine the relationship between men and women, not in the sense of love, marriage and bond but in the way the two differ in their actions, ways and moods amongst one another. The play commences, and we already see how the men act, and the women…

In the play ‘An Inspector Calls’, the Birling family and Gerald Croft are taught a lesson by the Inspector about responsibility and looking after each other. When Mr Birling fired Eva Smith he was, in his opinion, acting in the interest of his business. However, there could be more to it than that. He says, ‘She’d…

Produce an empathic response to character and themes in ‘An Inspector Calls’ basing your response on role-play activities, which demonstrates your understanding of the historical, cultural and social contexts in the play. An Inspector Calls was written post- World War Two around 1945. It is set in 1912, just before World War One started. In the stage…

Prologue Eva and worker are talking down on a lower floor of the factory, the walls are a bleak white and the ceiling a dirty cream with yellowish cream patches where smoke has gathered and rested on the paint. The floor is a dirty grey and along the edges the floor is beginning to wear…

Throughout act one of “An Inspector Calls” J.B. Priestly uses subtle techniques to give a sense of impending doom and downfall for the Birling household. He demonstrates the fact that the Birling family may well be headed for downfall with lots of techniques such as; the use of conflict within the household itself between the…

Priestly uses themes and ideas to help the audience relate to, and understand social responsibility and to make them realise how they must be aware of the consequences that other people, possibly with a lower status will have to face as a result of the choices and actions they choose to make. To portray this…

How does J. B Priestly Turn What He Has Seen, thought and felt into literature and what’s your opinion of the view of life which he presents to us in ‘An Inspector Calls’? J. B Priestly was born in Bradford 1894. His father was a school teacher and his mother died while Priestly was very young….

In the play An Inspector Calls, there is a great deal of information concerning the situation of England in 1912. Priestley has used various methods to show the audience, such as making certain characters mouthpieces; the roles of certain characters are important as well. In this essay, I am going to explore and evaluate several…

How does Priestley make a drama out of the theme of social responsibility in the play An Inspector Calls? The play tells the story of a middle class family and how they have all contributed to a young working class woman’s suicide. Priestley has set the play in 1912 as a way of making the audience…

Act one of Priestley’s Inspector Calls draws our attention to an unknown Inspector visiting the family home of the Birlings, in his attempt to divulge any information relevant to the death of a young poor girl by the name of Eva Smith later known as Daisy Renton. It would appear the girl has committed suicide…