J.B. Priestly uses an array of different dramatic devices to influence the audience. He uses dramatic irony very early on in the play, in the form of Mr. Birling’s speech. Birling talks about the Titanic, and how it is ‘unsinkable’; and about how there was absolutely no chance of war. Both of these statements are ironic because the Titanic does sink and there are two wars to come!
Another dramatic device used is the change in lighting. At the start of the play the lighting is ‘pink and intimate’, this changes to ‘brighter and harder’ lighting ...