Inspector calls

characters

Gerald Croft

Mrs Sybil Birling

Mr Athur Birling

Shelia Birling

Eric Birling

Inspector Goole

Themes in the play

Age-There was hope in the young generations for ability to change what we have done in the past and change the future ahead of us.

Gender-helps change different perspectives and to make sure that women are as capable as men in anything they can do.

key plot details

Inspector Goole investigates Eva Smith's death

Mr Birling had sacked Eva Smith

Shelia feels responsible for the death

Gerald confesses his affair with Eva

Mrs Birling refuses to help Eva

Eric was the father of Eva's unborn baby

Inspector Goole is an imposter

The police call the BIrling to investigate

Class-divided in different classes like wealthy land and factory and the poor workers and the war helped bring these 2 classes together

Social responsibility-first played in the end of ww2 (1946) they made it to make sure people know what others are feeling about one another's life after the loss of family homes ect.

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summarry

An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley, is a play that revolves around the apparent suicide of a young woman called Eva Smith. In the play, the unsuspecting Birling family are visited by the mysterious Inspector Goole. He arrives just as they are celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft.

secondary characters Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

Edna (the maid)

An Inspector Calls is a play written by English author J.B Priestly in 1945 and it was about