The audience gets more interested in the story when the inspector reveales how each of their small involvements lead to Eva/Daisy's death. The audience gets more affected by this when the inspector shows the members of the family the picture seperately, this could leave the audience wondering if the picture is the same all the way throughtout the play. The audience might also be intrigued by the way the family celebration so suddenly stopped and how quickly the story gets found out. Also the inspector says very little an makes the famliy confess a lot, this is a good way of keeping the audience interested.
Throughout the play a number of scenes end on cliffhangers, this is a good way of Priestly creating tension and keeping the audience interested. This is especially effective at the end of act two when the inspector is getting Gerald to confess to how he knew Eva/Daisy, this helps hold suspense between the two secnes.
Tension is also caused in the family when Sheila finds out her fiancee Gerald was having an affair with this woman, and just moments before the inspector turned up the family were celebrating the engagement of the couple. The lighting creates a harsh tense atmosphere when the inspector walks in the room, the lighting goes from soft to brighter and harder. This would have an impresion on the audience as the family is being interriegated by this strange inspector.
All of the action only taking place in one room holds a great amount of tension throughout the play as charachters enter and leave the room when the interrigation gets too tough or the inspector simply does not need thier help. This is also effective when Gerald leaves the house as he is not seen again until he re-enters the house.
Priestly ends the play on a cliffhanger, as the phone call to the Birlings house reporting the suicide of the girl as if the inspector never came, also when Gerald returns home he tells the family that the local station have not heard of an Inspector Goole, this would leave the audience wanting to watch more and find out the end of the story but instead they have to make up their on decisions about the strange happenings in the Birling household.
The end of the play twists this story into a strange play, this could be why it is not classed as a real detective story, there is no murder and there are multiple suspects that all helped kill the girl and also the audience could belive that the inspector was not a real person and that there was some other explantion to the play.
In this play I feel that it is not a real detective story as Priestly is also trying to get across a message to the audience, also not all of the relevant points are included to make the play a 'real' detective story, for instance there is no murder and no killer. A girl commits suicide, but from the actions of others, therefore it is almost like they have killed her.
I feel the Priestly is trying to get across the message that people need to look after one another as everybody has feelings, I also think tha he was trying to tech the audience the lesson that no matter if the person is socially lower than you, you must still treat them as a human being and not forget the fact that they have feelings and lives, and that every body is responsible for each others lives and actions. We can see that he is trying to get this point across when the inspector says this at the end of his time with the family. "We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are all responsible for each other." I feel this is the point Priestly is trying to get across to the audience.
This moral is delivered by the Inspector getting out all his information as proof from the other characters and then he feels it is safe to teach them and the audience that no matter who you are you must be responsible for you actions towards others. I think that Priestley uses the inspector to get this message across as he is a very powerful character that does not have much to say unless it is important to the play as a whole. By the end of this play I think that Priestely wants the audience and the other characters to feel responsible for others and their actions in life.
It is ensured that the audience knows this morale given by the inspector as this could make them better people and this could help people develop a better way of life for others. This was put across to the audience more strongly as Mr Birling was a very proud business man who thought he worked hard for his way of life and only he deserved it. The audience may disagree with his predictions on life as he mentions that you should only look after your family. The audience would not be imperesed with Mr Birlings views on the whole incident when the inspector leaves as he does not think that he has done anything wrong, that could effect her suicide. I think that Mr Birling might change his views after recieveing the phone call from the factory at the end of the play reporting the girls death.
I think that Priestely wrote this play to get across this moral and to also show that things may not always be as simple as they first seem, I think that he got this point across well as I clearly got the message in the play. Personally I did not agree with Mr Birling and his views on life as he is a very selfish character who does not care about others, only his money and lifestyle.
Ashleigh Follen 10S
