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"An Inspector Calls": Issues and Priestly's Viewpoint


22nd March 1997
Martin Howitt 11W

Discuss some of the issues raised in "An Inspector Calls" and show how Priestly
expresses his own viewpoint in the play.

The play is set in the 1912 on an English street scene in the evening.

The plot of "An Inspector Calls" is about a police inspector who interrupts an
elegant engagement dinner party to question the family and their guests about an
unsuspected suicide of a young working-class girl called Eva Smith. There are
many plot twists and changes which work well with the characters portrayed in
Priestley's play. The play is set in an upper-class household where class
distinctions are breaking down, where privilege and responsibility are being
challenged by a devious so-called inspector Goole.

The Inspector does a good job of making the family and friends of Mr Birling, (a
wealthy factory owner) feel very guilty for contributing towards the death of
Eva-Smith who also......

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