J.B.Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls :: English Literature

AN INSPECTOR CALLSCOMPARE THE LIVES OF EVA SIMTH AND SHEILA BIRLINGProperty is that old forge way of thinking of a country as a liaison and a collection of things on that thing. This quote is takendirectly from J.B.Priestleys ripe night post scripts on BBC radio in1940, which were banned for macrocosm to critical of the governmentsactions, and puke be used to sum up the capitalistic trip up perfectly. Ithink this quote is made from the point of view of a capitalist whobelieves that the old-fashioned belief is to think of property asbelonging the country and its quite a little however the new belief, hisbelief, is that property potful belong to individual masses and not tothe state or its people at all, and when a person owns his ownproperty he can run it any way he sees fit. This is a belief which sacerdotal continually criticizes throughout his play.An Inspector Calls was written in 1945, the year the due south World Warended, but was zeal in 1911. The social mode of both years was ofgreat unrest as was many areas of effort in Britain and many strikestook place all over the country frequently like the strike which took placein Mr. Birlings factory. Priestley set the play in 1911 because ofthe onset of the First World War and he would be able to write theplay with the advantage of hindsight, he could in any case make Mr. Birlinglook bad with his portentous beliefs and his promises of no war. Hemay strike also set the play in 1911 because at this time he was 18years old, working as a junior clerk in a wool firm and was approximately togain his first insight into the differences between the socialclasses. The people he met at this age encouraged him to take part intheir semipolitical arguments and discussions which were soon to influencehis opinions and frame the values he was to later write about. Thesealso led to him eventually attending university already politically sensible at the age of 25.By writing the play 35 years after it was set, Pr iestley gave hisaudiences the advantage of hindsight. He wanted to do something aboutthe injustices of society, and because nevertheless the middle and upperclasses could afford to go to the theatre, his audiences were exactlythe kind of people he was attacking. They were witnessing their ownlives on stage and for them it may not have been a very pleasant thingto see. I believe that at the time only the middle and upper classes