The Inspector in "An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley Plays a Crucial Role in the Drama Creating Tension and Mystery by Forcing the others to Face up to their Responsibility.

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The Inspector in “An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley Plays a Crucial Role in the Drama Creating Tension and Mystery by Forcing the others to Face up to their Responsibility. How does the Playwright Create this Tension and Mystery and Explain how you would Direct the Actor Playing the Inspector to Bring these Traits out?

The play “An Inspector Calls” by J.B. Priestley was written during World War two and set just before World War one. The play explores themes of social responsibility and community. This links with the time the play is set in and was written because in a cleaver way it is describing what is happening during the war. Times then were much more difficult if you were poor because there was no welfare state. Therefore employers had more control over workers as workers completely relied upon them for their livelihood.

The Birlings embody everything that Priestley is arguing against. They are very rich capitalist family who seems to care for nobody but themselves. Even the house they live in is described as “heavily comfortable” suggesting that they do not even care that much about each other, there is no warmth between them.  The Brilings own a mill in Brumley they are very pleased with themselves they are pompous and they think there right when they are wrong.

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The Inspector is a very complicated man He has a soft side, for the death of Eva Smith, he also has a furious dark side on which he uses to find how Eva Smith died. When the inspector was first introduced he seemed specious because everyone around him was quiet but very worried. “The inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness. He is a man in his fifties dressed in a plain darkish suit of the period. He speaks carefully, weightily and has a habit of look hard at the ...

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