An Inspector Calls Essay - Compare 2 characters from the play and show how Priestley wants us to react to them

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An Inspector Calls Essay:

Compare 2 characters from the play and show how Priestley wants us to react to them

An inspector calls is a play written by J. Priestly based on a pre world war 1 family.

The play starts with a relaxed dinner celebrating Mr. Birling's daughter's engagement to a young man named Gerald Croft. As the evening progresses ,it becomes more and more obvious that the evening isn't as normal as it seems but is infact a battle of conflicts and interests. The play also takes a strange turn of events when a rather gloomy looking character arrives ,namely Inspector Goole , who is investigating the death of a certain Eva Smith who was fired by Mr Birling to begin with because she wanted to have a slightly larger salary .

In the play Priestley gives the audience an array of different types of characters all whom represent and can be taken into consideration as examples of types of human beings whom we find ourselves surrounded with each day .

Mr. Arthur Birling is presented by Priestley as being an egotistical self centred individualist who tends to quite often ignore