How JB Priestley Creates a Moral Message in An Inspector Calls

How JB Priestley Creates a Moral Message in An Inspector Calls

This play is much like a detective story as it includes a great number

of 'ingredients' that a detective story would have, such as the fact

there is a detective in the play,Inspector Goole.There is a victim,

Eva Smith or Daisy Renton. There are many suspects. Money and

relationships are also included in the play, especially when Eric was

involved, all of these are key in a real detective story. This play

might not be classed as a detective story as there is no real murder

and no real suspects, the whole familly helped to drive Eva/Daisy to

suicide.

Priestley creates interest and suspense by slowly revealing small

parts of the story in a different order to how they happened and

affected Eva/Daisy's life by using a variaty of different dramatic

devices. We see this when he creates a sence of trust between the

character and the detective, and then moments later reveales a

different part of the story which leaves the character uneasy about

what they say, an example of this is when the inspector is talking to

Sheila Birling, the daughter of the family involved in the suicide.

Sheila starts to feel trustworthy with the inspector when he first

asks her questions, he builds up an amount of trust that then makes

her reveal all that she knows about the girl.

The audience gets more interested in the story when the inspector

reveales how each of their small involvements lead to Eva/Daisy's

death. The audience gets more affected by this when the inspector

shows the members of the family the picture seperately, this could

leave the audience wondering if the picture is the same all the way

throughtout the play. The audience might also be intrigued by the way

the family celebration so suddenly stopped and how quickly the story