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the 1945 audience read or watch the play, they can almost compare the old generation to the new and recognise the different attitudes. It is evident that Mr Birling is a man of money and it seems that he is only driven by money and success.
The life that the Birlings live is very nice and easy but Priestley is showing how great things always end in disaster like the evening they are having. This is also ironic as he starts by telling us how the Titanic was unsinkable and it ended and just like he
his family too, of course, when he has one - and so long as he does that he won't come to much harm. This shows us that he believes if everybody solely thought about themselves and their close relations then everything would be fine in life.
Priestley depicts Mr Birling in this way because he is such a capitalist and believes in completely the opposite to Priestley. So Priestly had inserted the Inspector in the play to educate the Birling's and Gerald about values of society especially Eric and Shelia whose generation in a few years
Priestly set his play after world war one because he wanted to see if the division between social class broke as we already now the Birlings were apart of the higher class. The term morality play from my personal knowledge means a meaning behind the story line.The meaning by morality
The first scene shows the having a good chat and celebrating something. This play keeps you in suspense all the time like when Edna (the cook) open the door and its inspector Goole "sit down inspector" Page 11, you can tell he wasn't expecting it by the way it all
They are around the dining table and the maid Edna is clearing the table which has on it champagne glasses, dessert plates etc, then she places a cigar box atop it. The occasion that night was to celebrate the engagement of Arthur Birling's daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft.
Inspector Goole's way of speaking is strange too, 'he speaks carefully, weightily and has the disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before speaking'. The Inspector looks sounds and behaves differently to a normal Inspector. He may appear to be someone from the past or the future - a time traveler.
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