Essays on Book Page 193

John Boynton Priestley was born in Bradford on 13 September 1984. His mother died in the same year and his father, who was a schoolmaster remarried four years later. Priestley left school at sixteen to write and managed to get work and at the same time found him self gaining an interest in politics through…

John Boynton Priestley was born on 13th of September 1894 and was raised in a modest but thoroughly middle-class home in Bradford, Yorkshire. ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written in just one week in 1945. J. B Priestley had a gift of writing quickly and is said never to have corrected his first drafts. The play…

In the play ‘An inspector calls’ by JB priestly, there are a range of dramatic devices used, you can see foreshadowing; where the characters hint at things that you see or learn later. There are the entrances and exit; the dramatic ways that these are used. Also the climatic curtain is used, leaving the readers…

This short statement made by the inspector after his primary investigation has taken place is one of the main underlying themes throughout this short play. Perhaps because of agendas that the author J. B. Priestly wants to address. English author J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) clearly saw this 20th-century conundrum when he observed that “ours is…

‘An Inspector Calls’ written by J. B Priestley, is set in 1912 and was written in 1945. In the play the Inspector appears to be very plain, dull and straightforward wearing a dark suit, and is rather sinister and suspicious. He, on his appearance, has a huge sense of “massiveness” to him, and has the…

The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J. B. Priestley, is a text that explores many social and moral messages which all become more evident as the play progresses and the plot advances. The play was written in 1947, this was just after the Second World War, but it was set in 1912. 1912 is only…

Act 2 ends not with an exit but with an entrance, Eric’s. The act finishes with an atmosphere of tension and immense expectancy of what is yet to come. How does J. B Priestly achieve this and what dramatic devices does he use? J B Priestly’s ‘ An inspector calls’ is a first-class, proficient play…

The play was written at the end of the Second World War, and performed a year later; it tells the tale of how a middle class family from the midlands are tied up inexplicably with the fate of a young woman who tragically commits suicide. It is set in 1912 (two years before the First…

The play “An Inspector Calls” is one that contains many broad themes, and one of these is that of morality. Morality manifests itself in many ways throughout the play, on a small scale in the individual case of the Birlings and Eva Smith, through the Inspector, and as a constant undercurrent running through the entire…

The year is 1912. The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter, Sheila, when they are interrupted by the visit of one Inspector Goole. Goole begins interrogating the family about the death of a woman who supposedly had various contacts with each member of the family. These reminiscences caused poignant regrets and consequences to…