An Inspector Calls Essay Examples

“An Inspector Calls”: Issues and Priestly’s Viewpoint”An Inspector Calls”: Issues and Priestly’s Viewpoint22nd March 1997Martin Howitt 11WDiscuss some of the issues raised in “An Inspector Calls” and show how Priestlyexpresses his own viewpoint in the play. The play is set in the 1912 on an English street scene in the evening. The plot of “An…

Inspector Goole plays a very important role in the play. It is through him that we understand the point J. B Priestly is trying to make. For this piece of coursework I have been studying the book and play ‘an inspector calls’. It was written in 1944 be J. B Priestly. Throughout the book I…

Discuss the role of the Inspector in the play. How does Priestley use him? Comment on the way the Inspector varies his treatment of the characters. An Inspector Calls is a play with many social and political messages. J. B. Priestley believed a great deal in socialism and he used several of his plays to…

The play “An inspector calls” written by J B Priestley. Inspector Goole is a very mystifying and baffling main character in the play. Who is he and what does he epitomize: is he Eva smith, the voice of the author, the character conscience, god, some one that can foretell the future or is he a…

In this Play the inspector plays various roles. He plays a socialist as he is against capitalist views and because he is not just looking out for himself but others as well. Also he is known to be a catalyst as he brings a split in the Birling family. He plays a ghost as we…

In 1945 J. B. Priestley wrote the play “An Inspector Calls”. It is a very tense play; the audience are always on the edge of their seats. It is didactic as it conveys a social and moral meaning to the play. The play has naturalistic conversation all the way through, to make it seem real,…

The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written in 1945, but the play was set in 1912. After living through two world wars, Priestley writes this play trying to get across his point that unless the world becomes socialist there will be another World War. By setting the play earlier than it was written Priestley has…

    I chose Ricky Gervais’ character David Brent to play Arthur Birling because he is self centered and thinks of himself before others. Arthur is very vocal and uses body language a lot to accompany his arguing. He should talk louder and lower than everyone else to appear manlier and in control of the…

    When the act changes the scenery does not change, this is done to create the affect of claustrophobia on the characters, this effect is created by there being no interval, and it makes them fell as though they can not get away from the inspector, like in a police station where you can…

  He is trying to teach his son and son-in-law to forget about the “cranks” or Socialists, and to follow his traditional opinion that it is “every man for himself”. The Inspector goes on to make an impression on the younger members of the family, namely Sheila and Eric, who genuinely feel remorseful after their…