The Dramatic Function of Inspector Goole Inspector Goole is an enigma; we never even discover his first name. While the other characters all develop and change in some way from the beginning to the end of the play Goole remains the same, emotionless and determined. He also frequently repeats "I haven't much time", while seemingly having all the time in the world for the inquiry. While spelled differently, Goole is pronounced the same as the word 'ghoul', which means a malevolent spirit or ghost or someone who is unnaturally preoccupied with death. Goole could be interpreted as either of these. He could be seen as some kind of spirit in the way that, after conducting the supposed inquiry he seemingly …show more content…
The Inspector guides the characters through their transitions and his messages and speeches apply to society in general just as they apply to the Birling family in particular. The Inspector isn't in the play right from the beginning, he arrives after a first act which exhibits a complacent Birling family celebrating the engagement of Gerald Croft and Sheila Birling. All the way through this act the lighting is "pink and intimate", showing the Birlings are, at least aesthetically, a happy family seemingly safe from harm. The colour is pink because the Birlings see the world through rose-tinted glasses. They are aware that there are people worse off than them who are struggling to stay alive day by day but they don't want to do anything about it because they think it has nothing to do with them so instead they ignore it. When the inspector arrives the light becomes "brighter and harder" signifying the fact that the inspector is shedding light on the families little infamies. The stage directions for the Inspector talk of "an impression …show more content…
This is in stark contrast with Birling's ideals, at the beginning of the play, just before the family is interrupted by the inspector, he says "The way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense. But take my word for it, a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own." This shows he believes that, just because the Birling family is upper class they are somehow isolated from the poor and needy and they need not help them. I think he believes this because he was not always rich and feels proud of his achievement and doesn't think he should help others when he's worked so hard to get where he is. We can tell these are not Priestly's views because Birling is so wrong about many other things. On the topic of war he says, "The Germans don't want war. Nobody wants war. There's too much at stake these days. Everything to lose and nothing to gain by war" of course he
audience in his play. I will be analysing act one of the play to try
one page 11) this indicates that he is a selfish man and cares for his
At around eight thirty AM Queenie Trap, a rather small woman at five feet and six inches and one hundred and ten pounds, left her house after a fight with her husband Arthur Trap. Had she known this was the last time she would see him alive she wouldn’t have left, or maybe she already knew about his untimely demise. Queenie has her motive, her fights with her husband are more than enough, although Queenie is rather small she knew Arthur was drunk.The investigators should rule Arthur’s death as a murder because she had a motive, and although some would say that Queenie’s size means she couldn’t overpower him he was drunk, she also had ten minutes alone with the dead body of Arthur.
He has no prove of the existence of anyone he thinks and analyze so he exists.
A Comparison of Characters of Mr. Birling and Inspector Goole in J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls
The Dramatic Techniques J.B. Priestley Used to Create and Develop Tension in Act one of An Inspector Calls
Examine Priestley's use of dramatic techniques to create tension in the play. Priestly was a socialist writer, and 'An Inspector Calls' is one of the plays in which he tried to display his socialist ideals in. The play was written in the 1940's, a little after the end of the Second World War, and it was first performed in 1946, in Russia, then later in England. Priestly had served in World War 1, and the terrible scenes he saw lead to him having socialist views. He was inspired by other writers whose views he shared, especially George Orwell and H.G.
audience is left in suspense at the end of Act One, this is done so
The Thin Blue Line is an exceptional documentary that dramatizes and re-enacts a crime scene which involves the murderer of a Police Officer in Dallas (Texas, USA). Morris gains interest in a psychiatrist, Dr. James Grigson, known as Dr. Death, which his job consisted on testifying against criminals and analyse if they would commit further violence crimes. In almost all of the doctor’s cases he would say that they will commit crimes with one hundred percent sure. Therefore, these criminals would be punished by a death penalty.
JB Priestley’s intent in ‘An Inspector Calls’ was to convey the attitudes of socialism to the minds of the society in the Edwardian Era as he was a passionate believer of the concept. Priestley has attempted this through the employment of ‘Inspector Goole’ in the play. In the play drama is displayed through a variety of methods for the interest of the audience and the communication of personal views from JB Priestley.
is seen as quite an evil and spooky person who would be seen to do
we do not know who the murderer is and what motive they have to murder
...ssified ghost into two categories blessed, and damned spirits. Those who come from paradise appear for a good purpose and those from hell for an awful and demonic purpose. While a few apparitions could be heavenly angels in a form of a ghost, Protestants felt that spirits were mainly evil because they take the form of dead friends and relatives to abuse and harm people.
him in a lineup (Neufeld and Scheck). This relates to the wrongful conviction because she
When viewed from a strictly medical, psychological aspect, Andrea Yates medical history indicates that after the birth of her first child, she began to suffer from various forms of depression and suicide attempts. If one only examines the paper trail and doesn’t think beyond what the medical history does or does not indicate, then perhaps, Andrea would be innocent by reason of mental insanity as the 2006 acquittal suggest. However, when viewed form a legal aspect there are several inconstancies that challenge if this former nurse was insane or if she in fact premeditated the murder of her children as well as her acquittal.