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The End of Act Two in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley
Introduction
In the first half of the 20th Century a number of different events
took place. As you may already know, two of the biggest events that
took place were the Two Great World wars. The devastating Wars took
the lives of soldiers, innocent people and civilians but also caused
the whole World to suffer. The Titanic, a ship that was ment to be
unsinkable, sank in 1912. The Holocaust in the 2nd World War was when
Hittler killed thousands and thousands of Jews either in concentration
camps or by torture. The Atomic bomb and the Great Depression was when
the World fell into a dismal grey, pit of depression after World War
1. They thought there would never be a War like it again.
Priestley was worried with how this world was turning out, how people
are selfish and don't help others and how they ignore and are
prejudice to one another. Priestley was a great writer of plays and
novels, which he hoped would inspire readers into making this world a
better place.
This essay is going to explore why the end of Act Two is so powerful
and if it is still relevant to a modern audience of today.
The Plot
In the play "An Inspector calls" an Inspector intrudes on a rich
household of snobby people about the murder of a young girl.
Themes
We can see clearly the themes of "An Inspector Calls" from our key
extract scene. Firstly we can see that he was interested in the
differences between right and wrong. For instance, when Mrs Birling
denies she has done anything wrong. The Inspector says "I think you
did something terribly wrong - and that you're going to spend the rest
of your life regretting it". This suggests that the Inspectors
opinions of right and wrong are completely different to Mrs Birling's
idea of right and wrong. The Inspector almost acts as the judge of
morality and tells the characters harshly when they do wrong and that
one page 11) this indicates that he is a selfish man and cares for his
There would be more of an effect on the audience at the time, as it
it will create. He makes a toast to the couple and to the fact that
Romeo and Juliet is a famous play that was first performed between 1594 and 1595, it was first printed in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is not entirely fictional as it is based on two lovers who lived in Verona. The Montague’s and Capulet’s are also real. Romeo and Juliet is one of the ten tragedies that William Shakespeare wrote. In this essay, I aim to investigate what act 1, scene1 makes you expect about the rest of the play.
she needed more money. So she said to him give me 25/6 because of that
The war was said to bring fire blood & anguish in to our lives. WW1 -
A Comparison of Characters of Mr. Birling and Inspector Goole in J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls
· The social class system at the time when the play is set, (rich and
J.B. Priestley's Motives Behind An Inspector Calls J.B. Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1894. His mother
J.B. Priestley's Play "An Inspector Calls" "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices. And I don't see why she should have been sacked". Eric to Mr Birling says this.
These two plays show dramatically the struggle for authoritative power over the characters lives, families, and societies pressures. The overall tragedy that befalls them as they are swept up in these conflicts distinctly portrays the thematic plot of their common misconception for power and control over their lives.
Priestley's Social Message in An Inspector Calls The play an Inspector Call’s was written at the time of 1945 but is set in 1912. Priestley conveys a lot of social and important messages in this play. He conveys the messages through the character of Inspector Goole. One most important message that Priestley conveys is about Socialism.
end. This essay will further show how both stories shared similar endings, while at the same time
J.B. Priestley wrote the play "An Inspector Calls" in 1945 and set it in 1912. These dates are both relevant because he wrote his play in a world emerging from the Second World War, at a time when people were getting nostalgic about pre-world war one. Priestley used his play to try and show people that the idea of a community in 1912 was gradually being washed away by the upper classes and that the world needed to change rather than return to the egotistical society that existed in pre war England.
Goole. Some the Birling family are used to show how we are not to act