An inspector calls is a modern reality play. Priestley wanted his audience to learn from his drama

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An Inspector calls

"An inspector calls is a modern reality play. Priestley wanted his audience to learn from his drama"

Part 2 Post 1914 Drama Assignment

John Boynton Priestley was born on the 13th September 1894 and was brought up in Bradford, by a middleclass family. His father was a schoolmaster and both his grandparents were mill workers; he often made visits to the mills of which his family worked and these visits gave him an insight into the exploitation that was taking place in the mills. From this came the inspiration for the famous play 'An Inspector Calls' where it is made openly known about the hardship and poverty of working class families in the early 1900's.

I believe that Playwrights main intention when writing the play 'An Inspector calls' was to show and teach us how society in Edwardian times was so cruel, he tells us about the horrible suicide of a young working class girl 'Eva Smith' and how an upper class family came to play such major parts in the events leading up to her death.

The play opens on the Birling family all happily gathered around their dining table celebrating