Inspector Goole
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- Created on: 14-04-17 10:15
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- Inspector Goole
- Inspector Goole presents himself to the Birlings and Gerald as a police officer who has come to investigate the suicide of a young woman.
- The Inspector interrupts the celebratory dinner, questions each of the characters in turn and establishes that each person had an unwitting role in the death of Eva Smith
- Little regard for social class or status
- Concerned about honesty and justice
- Makes a powerful speech about our responsibility to each other in the wider society
- Priestly uses the character of Inspector Goole to present his ideas about the need for a just society and communal sense of responsibility
- Goole, a homophone for 'ghoul' suggesting a phantom and also morbid interest in death
- Gerald discovers from a police sergeant that there is no Inspector Goole on the force; this is confirmed by Mr Birling when he rings Chief Constable Colonel Roberts
- Assertive
- "One person and one line of enquiry at a time"
- Brusque
- "Few friends, lonely and half-starved"
- "she died in misery and agony"
- Enigmatic
- "I don't see much of him" - referring to the chief constable
- Prophetic
- "They will be taught in fire and blood and anguish"
- "Need not be a big man, but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness"
- Compassionate
- "It would do us all a bit of good if we... put ourselves in the place of these young women"
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