Some individuals possess greater authority than others. The possession of authority is beneficial and makes life more pleasant but although it brings so much ease to life, it can easily be abused to bring harm to others. In the play, ¡°An Inspector Call¡± by JB Priestley, there are three characters that abuse their authority on a weaker character. Eric abuses his physical power, Arthur abuses his economic power, and Sybil abuses her power of social connections on Eva Smith.
             Firstly, it is apparent that Eric abuses his physical power on Eva Smith. Eric do not love Eva but he gets with Eva just to fulfill his desire: ¡°¡ I wasn¡¯t in love with her or anything¡she was a good sport.¡± (Priestley, 49) He sees Eva as a sexual object and not as another human being. He forces himself on her, and takes advantage of her while he is drunk: ¡°¡ I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I threatened to make a row.¡± (Priestley, 49) Eric¡¯s wrongful act is carried out by the excessive consume of alcohol, which takes away his control over himself, thus making him to create a big mistake. Eric abuses his physical power on Eva, resulting her to get pregnant.
            
             Secondly, Arthur abuses his economic power over Eva. Even though Arthur is wealthy, he is not willing to share little bit of his wealth with those who work hard to run his factory. He rejects their request when they ask for three more shillings: ¡°¡I refused. Said I couldn¡¯t consider it. We were paying the usual rates, they could go and work somewhere else. It¡¯s a free country, I told them.¡± (Priestley, 12) Arthur cannot care more about anything but money so he rejects Eva¡¯s request for three more shillings and instead he fires her for it, even though Eva was one of the
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