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
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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
    • ACTS

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