An Inspector Calls; The message Of The Play
Before World Wars 1,2 there was no NHS or social security, society's views on responsibility and rights were very different. The upper and middle classes, who had all the power, thought that everyman had to look after himself and maybe his family and no one else:
`A man has to make his own way, has to look after his family. ` Arthur Birling
J.B. Priestly wrote this play to show people that they should take responsibility for others.
The storyline is that a girl called Eva Smith, died on her way to the infirmary after swallowing a lethal dose of disinfectant. An inspector Goole calls at the Birling house in which everyone unknowingly had made a contribution to her death.
The audience in 1945, for which the play was written, probably despised Arthur Birling because most of them would have lost family members or close friends either in the first or second world wars or in the titanic disaster:
Before World Wars 1,2 there was no NHS or social security, society's views on responsibility and rights were very different. The upper and middle classes, who had all the power, thought that everyman had to look after himself and maybe his family and no one else:
`A man has to make his own way, has to look after his family. ` Arthur Birling
J.B. Priestly wrote this play to show people that they should take responsibility for others.
The storyline is that a girl called Eva Smith, died on her way to the infirmary after swallowing a lethal dose of disinfectant. An inspector Goole calls at the Birling house in which everyone unknowingly had made a contribution to her death.
The audience in 1945, for which the play was written, probably despised Arthur Birling because most of them would have lost family members or close friends either in the first or second world wars or in the titanic disaster: