An Inspector Call :: English Literature

An Inspector CallResponsibility n being responsible a moral obligation or duty acharge or trust a thing one is responsible for.Responsibility is very important in the play, because no body wasactually officially fully blamed. So Priestley leaves it up to theaudience to decide who is to blame, if anyone. If the so-called EvaSmith really existed, and if the inspector was really.GeraldThat man wasnt a police officer. (Page 62)BirlingThere you are Proof positive. The unharmed storys just a lotof moonshine (Page 70)At the time Priestley wrote this book there was very large boundariesbetween the rich and the poor where huge. So he wrote this book onresponsibility. So from what I know, I think the reason why Priestleyused a rich family to base the play around is because monied peoplethought they were on a morally different plane. They felt were notaccountable for anything, so Priestly made them vulnerable to showthey were gentlemans gentleman and so had to conform to the same morals and ethics.Sheila he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how muchhe knows that we dont know yet. (Page 26)This gives the play more power, knowing the rich are vulnerable, eventhough they have threatened and attempted to bribe the Inspector to enamour out of trouble.Birling How do you get on with our Chief Constable, Colonel Roberts?I see him fairly frequently. We play golf together (Page 16)This extra punch is given because at the time it was made the richwere still almost invulnerable, they could not be touched by acommoner, and yet in this play a complete stranger - who is obviouslyless(prenominal) affluent than them, practically demolishes their lives.The life-style of the poor in that era was extremely bad - they workedextortionate hours for low pay and lived I slums. This meant the poornever had a glimmer of happinessGerald she was desperately hard up and at that moment was actuallyhungry (Page 36)The play is the tale of a rich family, that are accosted by a manclaimi ng to be a police inspector. The family members have sometimebad to a woman two of them were called Eva Smith and Daisy Renton.Inspector Goole pulls all of these incidents together and bluffs hisway through the familys questions until they believe that it was asingular girl.The family then move through a process of blaming each other forpushing this girl to shoot suicide, and thinking that their lives andfamily name is ruined. Then the family discover that Mr Goole is in