Throughout the play, the Inspector tries to show each character their responsibility in Eva’s death, ‘each of you helped to kill her’.
The Inspector’s final speech is very important, and is aimed not only at the characters in the play, but to the audience, ‘One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do’. He wants the characters to consider a social conscience and to embrace the idea of their responsibility in society. He speaks of collective responsibility, that everyone in society is responsible for each other’s wellbeing.
His final words are important and are again aimed at everyone, ‘And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, when they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’.
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