Help the audience understand The purpose of the inspectors Visit.
Show how a production of “An Inspector Calls” could Help the audience understand
The purpose of the inspectors Visit.
The play “An Inspector Calls” written by J.B Priestley is set in 1912.
There are a few things that support this, that are heard in the first
part of the play.
“The titanic-she sails next week”
“All these capital versus Labour”
“These silly little war scores”
All of these events happened just before 1912 and so we know that the
play is set just before 1912.
The Birlings are an upper class family with a high social position
which can be seen by the fact that Mrs Birling doesn’t have to work
and they have servants and maids to do house work for them. There high
social position can also be seen because Mr Birling being a magistrate
and is still on the bench.
At this time the Birlings are in a great, and very happy mood. They
are all looking forward to the wedding of their daughter and Gerald.
They are all drinking port and are celebrating a special occasion with
a large meal that has been set out for them by the maids. This is also
another indication that the Birlings are a well off family.
The inspector’s arrival changes the atmosphere a lot and turns the
room into a hostile place. Mr Birling is very surprised to see an
inspector and thinks that it is something to do with Mr Birling being
a magistrate.
The inspector interrupts Mr Birling taking to Gerald and Eric. Mr
Birling is telling the two men how to look after themselves, and
that’s the most important thing. Mr Birling gets this point across
when he says
“A man has to make his own way-has to look after himself”
“That a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and
his own”
From these quotes that Mr Birlings says you can see that he only
thinks about him and preaches that.
The inspector arrives at this time and this is very significant,
because this is what the inspector has come to prove wrong. The
lighting is described as “pink and intimate” until the inspector
arrives and then I think that the lighting should be “brighter and
harder”. The lighting is as pink and intimate before the inspector
comes as it gives the impression of the family relaxing and having
fun. When the inspector comes it shows that the family are more on
edge. The brighter light is there to show all corners and all secrets
of the family.
The inspector should stand at the head of the table to symbolise his
There would be more of an effect on the audience at the time, as it
Criticism in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley "An Inspector Calls" has been called a play of social criticism. What is being criticised. Explain some of the dramatic techniques which Priestley uses to achieve the play's effects. "An Inspector Calls" has been called a play of social criticism as Priestley condemned the many different injustices that existed in the society between the first and second world wars.
J.B. Priestley's Motives Behind An Inspector Calls J.B. Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1894. His mother
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technology and how a man should live. He says 'A man has to make his
talks with. He is a man who has come to the Birling's house to do his
the end of the Second World War. The play is set in 1912, just before
satisfied. He talks a lot and likes the sound of his own voice. He's a
in jeopardy than how he may have driven a young girl down a spiral to
The Inspector in An Inspector Calls Examine the function and symbolism of the Inspector in the play – An Inspector Calls, and explain how Priestly makes him dramatically effective Throughout the play ‘An Inspector Calls’, by J.B Priestley, the audience sees the role of a mysterious investigator who interrogates a powerful and upper-middle class family: The Birling's. Priestley uses the role of the Inspector to expose the characters in the play, and to put his own views across about the Birling’s and their conservative beliefs. The play was written in 1946 and set in the spring of 1912. This means that the audience would have known the future events (the two world wars). Therefore they are in a position to judge the characters beliefs.
the suicide of Eva Smiths death. The aim of the story is to, try to
... Eva Smiths all over the world and that we are all members of one body
... may mean that if a person does not learn from their mistakes the first
“Girl” makes the impression that the mother wants the daughter to take over the “women’s” work around the house as well as she tells her which day to wash the white clothes Monday, wash the colored clothes on Tuesday, and she is teaching her how to iron her father’s clothes the way he likes them done and how to sew on a button; “This is how to make a button-hole for the button you have just sewed on.” (380) The mother also is teaching her daughter how to cook for the family. “Cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil,” (380) so that everyone will eat them. The mother also discusses table manners, “always eat your food in such a way that it won’t turn some-one else’s stomach.”
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