"An Inspector Calls" is a play that delivers both social and political messages. Playwright J. B. Priestley believed a great deal in socialism and he used several of his plays to try and influence people to be Socialist as well. It was written in a time when Britain was ruled by a Labour governmen...

Dear Miss Jolie, I would like to take the opportunity to invite you to play the part of Sheila Birling in our upcoming production of, 'An Inspector calls'. Before I inform you of how to play your part it is crucial that I contextualise 1912 society and the...

'What is the role of the inspector in the play as a whole?' In this Play the inspector plays various roles. He plays a socialist as he is against capitalist views and because he is not just looking out for himself but others as well. Also he is known to be a catalyst as he...

J.B.Priestley was born on the 13thSeptember 1894, in a middle class home in Bradford, Yorkshire, which was a large industrial area that produced cotton in the mills. Priestley grew up in a thoroughly middle class home in a place where socialist ideals thrived, and was proud of the fact that his gran...

An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls is a play written by J.B. Priestley based just after the First World War. It is about a girl called Eva Smith who decides to commit suicide after having no ware to turn. The events leading up to her death all ironically are linked to the people present in the...

I am currently studying a play called 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley. Basically, this play is about a suicide in which a whole family, the Birlings, are implicated. The play is set in the home of a middle class family, on a spring evening of 1912. This play contains an imp...

Who do you think was responsible for the suicide of Eva Smith? Inspector Goole himself says that there were many causes for Eva Smith's death, and this is certainly true. The inspector also says that it was a chain of events that led to her death. I think the main cause for her death was n...

An Inspector calls Sheila and Mr. Birling have very different characteristics. Sheila, being a much younger person is quite impressionable, whereas Mr. Birling is not he believes in the solid way of what he thinks is right must go ideas. Sheila attitude and views change as the as the inspector go...

TO answer this question accurately I have decided to split the answer into two halves. The Inspector tries to promote a socialist idea and to make the Birling family see things from a different view or see things in perspective I have decided to take two characters from the play describing them a...