AN INSPECTOR CALLS FINAL COURSEWORK ESSAY
             Which character was responsible for the death of Eva Smith Daisy Renton Mrs Birling?
             'An Inspector Calls' is a mysterious play that was written in 1947 and is set in the fictional town of Brumley, in 1912 (prior to the start of the Great War). The playwright is John Boynton Priestly, who uses a variety of interesting, unexpected twists in order to captivate the reader. In this essay, I will answer the question, 'who is the most responsible character for the suicide of Eva Smith Daisy Renton?' In order to do this, I will analyse each characters involvement, and examine the range of emotions they display throughout.
             The play is a mystifying and exhilarating mix of many themes, including greed, vanity and rejection, as well as love, sex and secrecy. I feel that the play conveys a deep message without being melodramatic. 'An Inspector Calls' tells of the bourgeoisie Birling family celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to an aristocratic man, Gerald Croft. The catalyst to the play, Inspector Goole, arrives and completely alters the situation, by forcing all the characters to examine their own consciences, which leads to a dramatic ending. The play is structured around a rigid social class system which was very real in the early twentieth century.
             Arthur Birling one of the protagonists in the play, is a capitalist, who owns his own business. He has a maid named Edna, which indicates his wealth. Birling sees the proposed marriage of his daughter as an excellent opportunity to merge companies with a former rival, Crofts Ltd. This shows him to be a clever entrepreneur, who considers the positive long term effects of decisions. He is also eager to obtain a knighthood, a goal, well within his reach, as he said to Gerald, 'so long as we behave ourselves.' He plans ahead, assuming that everything will fall into place perfectly, ho...