What Is The Dramatic Importance Of Inspector Goole's Character In Priestly's 'An Inspector Calls' And What Things Would A Director Need To Consider When Casting This Role

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What Is The Dramatic Importance Of Inspector Goole’s Character In Priestly’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ And What Things Would A Director Need To Consider When Casting This Role.

        In this essay I intend to discuss the dramatic importance of Inspector Goole’s character in Priestly’s ‘An Inspector Calls’.

        Inspector Goole is a catalyst for the events of the play.  He is calm, firm and confident.  He forces, with words, the other characters to acknowledge and confess to knowing Eva Smith at one time or another.  His manner also enables him to bring Sheila and Eric to the realisation of their guilt and responsibility towards the death of Eva Smith.  Inspector Goole is dominating and puts a lot of pressure on the character he is questioning, this allows him to reveal the chain of events that led to the death of Eva Smith.  A director would have to consider this when casting the role.

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        Inspector Goole has a great presence, ’he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness’.  Inspector Goole dominates the situation from the start and is not intimidated by Mr. Birling, Gerald Groft or anyone else in the family.  

        Inspector Goole is always in control, ‘(taking charge masterfully)’, he dominates the proceedings though-out the play, ‘(cooly, looking hard at him)’, this also shows that Inspector Goole is not intimidated by anybody in the family and is in total control all the time.  This shows to me that as well as not being intimidated by the family he is ...

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This essay would have been better if it had just been focused on the first part of the question as the second part of the question isn't really explored. There is some good analysis of language and form; further analysis of structure would have improved the response. 3 Stars