An Inspector Calls
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- An Inspector Calls
- J.B. Priestly
- 1946 ~ Priestly was writing the play a year after WW2
- NHS formed
- first Labour government in many years
- socialism
- reflection of attitude of many at the time
- after war many looked after own interests
- sacrificed too much for B during war
- after war many looked after own interests
- fast writer
- written in 10 days
- premiered Moscow 1945
- Sunday night broadcasts "the postscripts"
- made him a national figure
- Aired on the home service
- "straight talking Yorkshire man" who "told the truth as he saw it"
- man of the people
- british morale
- 1946 ~ Priestly was writing the play a year after WW2
- themes
- Social class
- Youth, Age
- Responsibility
- Cause/Effect
- Social Duty
- capitalism
- socialism
- Gender
- Truth, Justice
- CHARACTER
- Mr Birling
- Mrs Birling
- Eric
- Sheila
- Gerald Croft
- Inspector Goole
- he should “create an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness”
- not trying to solve crime, makes birlings face culpability
- homophone- Goole>ghoul
- Eva Smith
- Structural
- Agatha Christie style drawing room thriller
- uses detective structure to force audience to consider capital/social as a question of morality
- all are suspects/ culprits
- ending:
- Disrupts flow of events in the last moments, play closes with a twist
- timeslip
- the ending ensures they are not let off the hook
- that IG might have been a hoax brings relief
- Goole's lesson forgotten/ ignored when he exits
- that IG might have been a hoax brings relief
- unexpected climax
- Disrupts flow of events in the last moments, play closes with a twist
- START
- Setting
- set in 1912
- Brumley (imaginary) industrial city
- Tone
- foreshadowing
- Dramatic Irony
- "they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
- references to world wars
- "they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
- ACTS
- J.B. Priestly
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