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INSPECTORS QUALITIES

(An Inspector Calls)

An Inspector Calls is a play written by JB Priestley. Within the play Priestly preaches his socialist views that we should look after one another through the character of the inspector. The play highlights key themes of responsibility, guilt and morality .Furthermore the play follows a middle class family and  their relation to the death of lower class women Eva Smith or Daisy Renton. The audience are invited to question the morals and actions and as a result question themselves .Dramatic and chronologic irony is created throughout the play as the play is set in 1912 but written in 1945. It therefore allows the audience to look upon the play retrospectively and judge accordingly .In this essay I will be discussing the qualities that aid the inspector and what makes him so successful.

One quality that makes the inspector so successful is he is classes .It is evident that the Inspector does not conform to a particular class .The audience can see this when he is unimpressed with Mr Birling awards and achievements for example Mr Birling was “lord mayor “and “on the bench” .Furthermore when Mr Birling speaks of how he played golf with the chief constable in a threatening manner the inspector simply replies “I don’t play golf”. The Inspector believes in equality hence speaks to Mrs Birling as he would anyone else . Contradictory to this Mrs Birling due to the social hierarchy thinks he ought to pay her some respect despite her actions ,which she believes are justified .An example of this is when they find the inspector to be a hoax she makes a comment “a real inspector wouldn’t talk to us like that”. Therefore it can be seen that the Inspector Is classes and disagrees with the class structure as a whole as he says “we are all members of one body”. This element makes him so successful as he is an outside source who demands respect through his actions and words and allows the Birling family and indeed the audience to revaluate whether respectability is directionally proportional to responsibility

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Another quality that makes the inspector so successful is his entrances and exits .For example the Inspector calls just after Mr Birling has made the comment “a man has got to mind his own business and look after him self”. It is clear that the inspector is present to combat those believes and for them to question themselves despite this Mr Birling seems not to change and is more concerned with a “public scandal” . The Inspector calculates his exits impeccably for example when he sees that Gerald has reacted to the name Daisy Renton he leaves Sheila ...

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