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This 9 page report discusses a contemporary dramatic classic, J. B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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attention speaks well of its enduring quality and truths that other great 20th century plays such as "Death of a Salesman" or "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" that, although
they are decades old, audiences who already know the story, still take pleasure in new interpretations and presentations of the work. Priestley wrote "An Inspector Calls" at the end
of World War II but placed it in the timeframe directly preceding World War I and the social and economic realm of Edwardian society. Inspector Gooles call on the financially
well-off Birling family shakes up both the family and the audience in terms of how or even if, we all examine our own consciences. It is also worth noting that
the play was partially written and produced as a means to encourage a Labor Party victory in Englands 1945 elections. As it criticizes the callous indifference of people with money
to the common, working man and woman, it underscored the goals and purposes of the Labor Party (Brustein 26). Brustein also notes that the plays first performance was actually in
Moscow in 1945 (26). On the proverbial (and cliched) dark and stormy night in 1912, the no-nonsense Inspector Goole (appropriately named although he makes it clear that it is
not "Ghoul") calls on the Birling family of Yorkshire and although everything appears to be allright, there is clearly a problem if the Inspector has to visit. The Birling family
is celebrating the engagement of daughter Sheila (the quintessential pampered and spoiled brat) to a local landowner named Gerald Croft which will be a good match for both of the
families involved since Geralds father is quite wealthy. Sheilas brother, Eric is a little bit drunk but happily so. Their father, Arthur, is very much lord of the manor and
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