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English Coursework for Inspector Calls I think Inspector Calls is written in three different levels between a political play, a morality play and an inspector play. Mr. Birling is the main character in the play and really brings out the political aspects in the play Inspector Calls. We can see this when he says 'Your engagement to Sheila means a tremendous lot to me.' He also says 'Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business for some time now - though Crofts Limited are both older and bigger than Birling and company - and now you have brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs but higher prices.' So he doesn't really care about there marriage, he cares more about the money. Priestly uses the seven deadly sins very well as we can see in the play. We know that Mr Birling is used with avarice by his eager for money and leadership. He thinks money is more important than any thing else. Priestly also uses Mr Birling with pride he thinks too much of himself, as we can see when he is talking to Gerald and he wants to make himself less important to Gerald so they can join and have great success in his job. Eric has three of the seven deadly sins used on him they are: sloth, lust and intemperance. We can see in the play that he is excessive for sex when they
An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls Introduction "An Inspector Calls" is a play written by J.B Priestley in 1946. It is set in 1912. It is about a Family celebrating an engagement party. The Inspector makes an unexpectedly arrival to the house. He starts to investigate about an alleged suicide. The main theme (or one of the main theme) about this play is 'Social Responsibility' which means to care for others in the community. I will discuss the main points about each character in the play. My first character I will discuss about is Mr Birling. Mr Birling Mr Birling was a rich self-made man he was rich because of his company called 'Birling & Co'. He was snobbish about the business because he would give more money to his family than to his employees. He thinks the 'Cranks' by which he means the socialists tells you to look after others in the community. He is a Capitalist which, is every man for himself. "Capital versus Labour agitation's and all those silly war scares" When the Inspector questions Mr Birling, he was calm and patient. As soon as the Inspector told the family about the alleged suicide of Eva Smith, the family was shocked. Mr Birling answers the Inspector's questions, he shows no emotion, but when the Inspector tells Mr Birling how he was involved with Eva Smith he slightly changes his attitude. "Yes, She was out of work for the next two months" The Inspector shows the
An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls In act one of 'An Inspector Calls 'how does J.B.Preistly use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in the play? The play 'An Inspector Calls' was written by J.B. Priestly in 1945, which was just at the end of the Second World War. The play is set in 1912, just before the First World War. The play was set at this particular time so that J.B. Priestley could get his message across more clearly. The message was that we all have to take responsibility for our actions, which can have consequences. John Boynton Priestly was born in Bradford on the 13th of September f1884; he was a writer who wrote many famous novels and plays such as; Dangerous Corner (1932), Time and the Conways (1937), When We Are Married (1938) and An Inspector Calls (1947). An Inspector Calls is about a higher class family, 'The Birlings' and their relationship with a young woman called Eva Smith. The Birlings are from Brumley, the head of the house Mr. Birling is successful businessman and the owner of a large factory, where he employs hundreds of workers. The story picks up at scene where the family are celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft (a man with a higher status than Mr. Birling), there's a knock at the door and an Inspector comes in and interrogates each member of the
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G.C.S.E. English Literatures Assignment An Inspector Calls By: J.B. Priestley Priestley structures his play to ensure that it ends on a note of high drama. How does he ensure the audience feels this tension in the final scene of the play? The play of "An inspector calls" takes place in the dining-room of the Birlings house in Brumley, an industrial city in the north Midlands. It is an evening in spring 1912. The play is about an inspector who goes to the Birling family's house about the death of a young girl called Eva smith/Daisy Renton who has just committed suicide. His name is Inspector Goole, and he went to Birling house to investigate about this girl that committed suicide. The girl drank some strong disinfectant and burned her insides out. The inspector starts questioning by disturbing a family celebration. The family's name is the Birling. They were celebrating the engagement of there daughter Sheila Birling who was getting engaged to a man called Gerald Croft. They were both rich and upper class family. The characters in "An inspector calls" are; Arthur Birling and Sybil Birling (parents of Sheila and Eric). Sheila Birling and Eric Birling are (children of Mr Birling and Mrs Birling). Gerald croft is the (fiancé of Sheila). Edna is the (worker of Birling house). At the rise of the curtain, the four Birlings and Gerald are seated around at the table and
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Analyse the Role of the Inspector In "In An Inspector Calls" An Inspector Calls was written in 1945 by John Boynton Priestley who uses a variety of interesting, unexpected twists in order to captivate the reader. Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire on the 13th September 1894. He served in the army in both World Wars. An inspector calls was first shown to an audience in 1845 but shown in England in 1846. In the play during that time woman's rights were introduced and people started coming to Britain from other countries for work. The war and woman's rights were some of the themes in the play along with responsibility. An inspector calls is about a mysterious inspector who questions the Birling family and their guest Gerald Croft, about the death of a girl, Eva smith. The inspector than unravels her story and the involvement of each family member is confessed. The social and historical context of the play is important. In the days where the play was set social position was more important than it is today. Men who invested in their own companies, like Mr.Birling were very wealthy. Marriage was an important thing especially when a woman was marrying a man socially superior, for example Shelia & Gerald. In 1893 workers like Eva Smith didn't have rights and weren't taken seriously by employer. If they didn't like how much they were getting paid or didn't like the work
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Introduction J.B Priestley keeps the interest of the audience throughout 'An Inspector Calls' in a variety of ways. Paragraph 1 J.B Priestley gives us a lot of clues in the play 'An Inspector Calls' which makes us feel that things are not quite as they seem. In the play we see that there is a lot of tension in the Birling household, and there are a lot of secrets kept amongst them. In the play at the engagement party we find out that there are a lot of arguments going on between the men and the women. Also we find out that Gerald had been avoiding Sheila all last summer and Sheila feels that she should know what had happened last summer. "Yes-except for all last summer, when you never came near me, and I wondered what had happened to you." We also find out that Sheila needed a ring from Gerald for reassurance. Next we find out that Eric was hiding something because he says in mid sentence "Oh yes, I remember" but then he pauses and doesn't tell anyone about it. This suggests to us that he was hiding something from the beginning. Paragraph 2 In the play 'An Inspector Calls' J.B Priestley uses cliffhangers to attract the attention of the audience. Near the end of act 1 we see that Gerald and Sheila are having a conversation, Sheila is saying to Gerald "How did you come to know this girl- Eva Smith?" Gerald tells her that he does not know an Eva Smith, he only knows a Daisy
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GCSE English Coursework 'An Inspector Calls' In Act One of 'An Inspector Calls', how does J. B. Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in his play? 'An Inspector Calls' by J. B. Priestley is a play about a girl who commits suicide and a police investigation into this suicide. The play can be placed in the detective thriller genre because it shows things that are present in this genre, such as the fact that someone dies, the police investigate the death, and we find out the cause of death. In addition, as the play progresses it becomes a 'Whodunit?' because, as the audience slowly learn, all the characters in this drama had a part to play in the girl's suicide. This whodunit style keeps the audience interested in the play by building up suspense and keeping the audience guessing. However, the play is more than just a detective thriller or whodunit? It is also a morality play because the main theme is responsibility and how our actions can cause a chain of events that affect other people. Priestley uses the seven deadly sins - pride, sloth, gluttony, envy, covetousness, lust, and greed - to show how the Birlings have done morally wrong and how they need to take responsibility for their actions. I feel that, among other things, morality is one of Priestley's main concerns for
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An Inspector Calls In the opening stage directions Priestley creates a relaxed atmosphere by a group of people celebrating and having a little party. Priestley shows it's relaxed by telling us what's on the table. The objects on the table are all products that help people more laid back and joyful, "decanter of port, cigar box and cigarettes". Also the light in the room is pink and intimate which is calm on your eyes and which shows everything is calm and peaceful between the characters at the moment. " Lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives, and the it should be brighter and harder." This tells the audience the inspector is bringing strife to the celebration and he will cause a lot of tension. The furniture looks important and heavily comfortable but not cosy and homelike. "It has good solid furniture of the period. The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable but not cosy and homelike." This says the furniture is just to show off and really for the family to sit around showing they care more about money than each other. Mrs Birling has a wealthy family so she's always been wealthy but Mr Birling had to work hard for he money he earned by himself. " His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior." Mr Birling is a bit jealous of his wife cause she didn't have to work for her wealth and he did. Also
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An Inspector Calls The inspector is the centre of the play and this is shown in the way he is different from the other characters and the way he dominates the script. There is a massive contrast between the Birlings' celebrations at the beginning of the play to when the inspector comes in. When the inspector enters the play everything seems to turn to ice we know that everything is going to turn upside down. What the Birling family were celebrating at the beginning of the play doesn't even exist at the end of it so comparing the beginning to the end there is a big change and a massive contrast. At the Royal National Theatre "An Inspector Calls" production the stage was set as a street. In the middle of the street was the Birlings' house. This was up high away from the poverty below. At the beginning of the play there were war sirens and children scurrying around like rats in 1940's clothing. These time zones help create the dramatic irony, already present in the script. There are three time zones portrayed in the production the first one is the 1940's. Throughout the play the inspector and other figures such as the children who represent the poor and lower class are all dressed in 1940's clothes. The next time zone is the time that the play was set in and it is 1912. The last time zone is when the fourth wall is broken down by the inspector in his final speech and is the
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An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls written by John Boynton Priestley was a play written in 1945 however was set in 1912. This is interesting because in 1912 World War I would start in 2 years time, making Mr. Birling's optimistic view that there would not be a war is completely wrong. This allows Priestly to relate to World War 1 and 2 using dramatic irony by referring to the two World Wars as the characters live in a world before the world wars while the audience lived in a post war world. Priestley deliberately set his play in 1912 because the date represented an era when all was very different from the time he was writing. In 1912, rigid class and gender boundaries seemed to guarantee that nothing would change. Meaning that the rigid class would stay rigid and the women would stay working at home cooking and cleaning. Yet by 1945, most of those class and gender divisions had been breached. Priestley wanted to make the most of these changes. Through this play, he encourages people to seize the opportunity the end of the war had given them to build a better, more caring society. During the 1930's Priestley became very concerned about the consequences of social inequality in Britain, and in 1942 Priestley and others set up a new political party, the Common Wealth Party which argued for public ownership of land, greater democracy, and a new "morality" in politics. The
