Analyse J.B. Preistly's Presentation of Inspector Goole in 'An Inspector Calls'

Analyse J.B. Preistly’s Presentation of Inspector Goole in ‘An Inspector Calls’

‘An Inspector Calls’ is a play written by J.B. Preistly in 1945 after WW2. The play was set in 1912 just before WW1, this date was chosen to show the contrasts of the two orders and to help J.B.Preistly’s message of the play become clearer. In the world in1945, as I’ve said, it was the end of WW2 and the Labour Party had been elected for government for the first time. Preistly’s message of the play is that he thinks that the old older was a bad idea because it had already got the world in 2 world wars’ and that every body should respect and care about each other .

The Inspector is an important character is important to the play because he is like the spokes person of the play because he shows that the ways of the old order are wrong and that the way of the new order was the right way to go. He is also pointing out Preistly’s message by saying that the old order views from Arthur Birling about how everybody should look after themselves and not care about any other problems in the world accept your own. The way that Preistly does this is by contrasting Inspector Goole and Arthur Birling for example the Inspector is cool, calm and collected, Arthur Birling has to always have his wits about him and always try to be right.

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My first impressions of the Inspector are that he is an important character to the play and solving the mystery of who killed Daisy Renton, but I didn’t think that he would have any thing to do with the message. Did Preistly want the audience to think this? I think that he did and that adds to the initial impact of the inspector’s character, not knowing what he is all about. In the text Preistly describes the inspector as a big character in his late 40’s makes him seem a convincing inspector; this could help to trick the audience in the later scenes. The Inspectors entrance is important because it is the middle of Birling’s big speech about only looking after yourself and later in the play he contradicts that speech and shows Birling that he is in the wrong and that Eric And Sheila are right for being in the new order. When he enters the room with the lines “ I’d like some information if you don’t mind, Mr. Birling” it makes the audience feel that Birling, who is so convinced the old order is correct and he is amazing, has done something wrong, which makes the audience star to believe the message of the play which is to convince people the new order is the correct way of life.

Priestly made the Inspector look intimidating to the audience, “the inspector wasn’t a big man, but he had authority and had a tendency to star at the person he was talking to.” Also at the end of the scenes the inspector will ask the questioned character a rhetorical question, to add to the mystery and build to the suspense of, did the old order cause this? Also, going back to the inspectors first words, the line is short and straight to the point making the inspectors presence an intimidating and meaningful prescience, telling the audience what the inspector is there for, but at the end, when the audience find out that he Is not a real inspector, they wonder: “what was the real role of he inspector?” I think that Preistly wanted this effect so the message of the play is the most clearest at the end of the play.

When Birling and Mrs. B want to return to their old way of life, the audience are thinking how stupid the old order must be to be that 'blind' and return to their old way of life, but when the phone rings and the Birlings' ore told that an inspector is coming to question them about a dead body that has been taken into the morgue, the audience feel that it is going to be the old older is to blame, which is what Preistly wants, so he cuts the play so that the audience leave feeling angry at the old order because they are probably responsible, and confused whether this is a real Inspector and that the problems are real. Overall this p[lay creates a general disliking for the old order and a showing of good will and consideration of other people from people in the new order.

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