inspector calls

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Naila khan,

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English coursework.

An inspector calls.

Sheila;

I am writing you this letter because I feel it will help you in your acting career to play the part of Sheila in “An Inspector Calls”. I enclose notes on the play and how I feel your character should be performed.

This play is set on an evening in early April 1912. We join the Birlings celebrating your characters engagement to Gerald croft (the son of Sir George croft.)

The Birlings are a relatively affluent family who live in the industrial town of Brumley in the midlands. Their celebration is interrupted by Edna, the parlour maid. She announces the arrival of inspector Goole. The inspector has brought some unfortunate news of the suicide death earlier that day of a desperate young woman, Eva Smith / Daisy Renton.

As the inspector carries on through the investigation, we find out how each of the Birlings was involved with the young woman and may have caused her death.

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The moral that JBP was trying to convey to the audience is that there are millions of Eva Smiths still in the world and that we are all responsible for each other.

Sheila is the daughter of Mr & Mrs Birling. She is a young, attractive woman who has just been engaged. She is very pleased with her life at the start of the play. But little does she know that her happiness is soon going to be destroyed just like her faith in her family. Her reaction to the tragedy is one of the few hopeful things to come ...

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