An Inspector Calls Characters TSS The Snaith School

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  • An Inspector Calls Characters
    • Mr Birling
      • He is very opinionated.
      • At the start of the play he is seen as quite arrogant.
      • He is a proud father and head of the family.
      • As the play goes on, he grows to dislike the Inspector.
      • Mr  Birling is a capitalist evidence for this is "...we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices."
      • He is a 'hard headed' business man. Evidence for this is "And I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business."
      • He is quite possessive as he refers to things been his. "Is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you, Inspector?"
    • Eric
      • He is the Birlings son in his early 20's.
      • He is described as being 'not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive' "I don't know - really. Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh."
      • It turns out that Eric had an affair with Eva Smith and that she was pregnant with Eric's baby when she committed suicide.
      • He stole money from his father's business to help Eva.
      • In the final act Eric makes an emotional attack on his parents and their values and shows that he can be assertive.
    • Sheila
      • Sheila Birling is Arthur and Sybil's daughter and is in her early twenties.
      • At the start of the play she is celebrating her engagement to Gerald Croft.
      • She is seen as been very shocked about the death of Eva Smith and regrets her involvement.
      • She also shows an assertive side  of herself by standing up to her mother and father.
      • She is insightful and intelligent.
      • At the start of the play she is seen as been quite Naïve   as she is easily led. "I'm sorry Daddy actually I was listening."
    • Gerald
      • Gerald is described as an attractive chap about thirty.
      • He is engaged to Sheila.
      • His family are upper class business owners.
      • At the beginning of the play he is seen as quite confident and charming.        "Sure to be, unless Eric’s been up to something."
      • He was positive he had nothing to do with Eva Smith until he heard she had changed her name to Daisy Renton.
    • Mrs Birling
      • She is Mr Birlings wife.
      • From the beginning of the play she is seen as cold-hearted and quite a snob.
      • She is a prominent member of a women's charity.
      • She turns a blind-eye to her sons drinking habits. "No, of course not. He's only a boy."
      • She is last to admit she did anything wrong.
      • She dislikes and doesn't trust the inspector from the beginning of the play.
    • Inspector Goole
      • He has conflicts with Birling the most.
      • He changes the atmosphere of the play from a happy engagement to everyone been quite bewailed about something.
      • He is cold and emotionally detached from the characters especially from Sheila.
      • Eventually, he gets the truth out of all the characters about their involvement of the death.
      • By the end of the play it is actually revealed he is not an inspector. His name 'Goole' suggests he is a supernatural or ghost like element

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