The inspector Goole philosophises about what will happen if the world does not change , if the people continue being so arrogant and behaving as if all of the world belonged to the wealthy people and the person that had less money were treated like obejects . If all this happens the world would be in disaster , he emphasises “fire, blood, anguish” the word “fire” suggests destruction , “blood” suggests death and “anguish” suggests agony . This is also a dramatic irony because people continued being as the Birlings did and all this succeses one after one lead to the two world wars which caused massive damages to the Earth and it killed huge amounts of humans . The war didn´t change anything because nowadays people with power and money continue behaving like the birlings did they are prepotent and arrogant.
Throughout the play Inspector Goole controls the actions of each individual and also creates tension and suspence to the characters and to the audience . When the inspector shows the photographs one by one Gerald gets annoyed and says “any particular reason why I shouldn´t see this girls photograph” suggests that Gerald is impatient to see who is in the photograph . The Inspector responds “there might be” creates an atmosphere of tension and suspense by suggesting to the audience that Gerald is the responsible for Eva Smith´s death . At the end of the play the telephone rings and there is “a moment´s silence” this suggests , after the family saying that there isn´t a real inspector and it was all a farce, that the girl is dead and a real inspector is going to come . This creates an atmosphere of suspense because anybody speaks and it makes the audience want to know what happens next.
Inspector Goole passes judgment on each of the Birlings and Gerald and judges each character by how much each one admits , Gerald does not say all the truth because he wants to look a strong man in the presence of Mr Birling . He admits that he was present in Eva Smith´s death but he improved her life by giving her a temporary home , food and money , was honest to her and “didn´t ask for anything in return” suggest that he really made her life much better . In a totally opposite way he interrogates Sheila softly because she was ashamed of her actions and making Eva Smith get fired from Milward . He does a softer approach to Sheila because she is showing all the truth to everyone without the inspector asking her any questions , this gives an impression of disappointment in herself . The inspector interrogates Mr Birling much more rudely by interrupting in most of Mr Birling speeches . Mr Birling tries to put the Inspector´s power and authority down by changing the conversation theme and cutting in “I play golf” suggests that he wants to take control of the situation. By Inspector Goole´s actions and speeches we can deduce that he has an impression of Mr Birling that he is very stubborn because he does not admit any responsibility in Eva Smith´s death.
Inspector Goole comments on society and what does the middle class do to avoid all the problems , how they use the power to do what they want and to cover up the truth and how they use the lower class to do what ever they want. He criticises Eric because he used the lower class to have sex after drinking . The inspector says “go to bed with her” suggests that he uses them one time and then forget everything as if they were objects . He criticises specialy Mr Birling for being so arrogant and treating the lower class equaly as Eric ; like objects “Well , we´ve several hundred young women there , y´know , and they keep changing” creates an impression that he doesn´t care about their lives as if the young women could be made in a factory and he could buy them and then throw them away. Inspector Goole comments also the play´s theme ; responsibility , Mr Birling says “a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own” this suggests that he is responsible of himself , he doesn´t care about anybody else . He needs to care about everybody so that the society continues going
His strong character made the Birlings and Gerald recognise their errors and made the audience think that if you have done anything wrong to another person you don´t know how they feel and that it could led them to death . Just what the Birlings and Gerald did to Eva Smith . He created an atmosphere of tension that led to the end of the play with suspense and with no real answer to weather the inspector that came in first place was real or imagery .
