An Inspector Calls :: English Literature

An tester Calls Productions seen BBC Television Production (1981) Film Production (1954)Part IJ.B.Priestlys summercater is set in the spring of 1912 in the household ofan upper-middle class family in the north of England. The plot of thisdramatic play is based around the birling familys involvement in ayoung girls suicide. The rotate family consists of the two parents,Arthur and Sybil rotate and their two children Eric and Sheila.Gerald Croft is soon to be amount a member of the family as he hasrecently announced his engagement to Sheila.As the story unfolds we find that to each one of the family members is partlyto whang. Which member however carries the most blame? It is importantto ingest that J.B.Priestly has made it deliberately difficult toplace the blame solely on one person. Having read the play and seentwo productions of it, I have come to the conclusion that Mrs rotateis the most to blame.This conclusion was riged for many reasons. One such(prenominal) reason was dueto the process of elimination. Each Character, although misdeedy, hasdifferent responsibilities and different degrees of blame due to theirinvolvement with the girl, their reaction to the news of her death,how they compare to the other characters and how the reference would orshould perceive them.If we first take Mr Birling, who is questioned by the Inspector first.Mr Birling is described by Priestly as heavy looking, ratherportentous...in his middle mid-fifties with fairly easy manners....ratherprovincial in his speech. Birling is fairly b outo in his line ofwork and is always striving to become better. He is self-important andslightly pompous. He could even be described as old fashioned. Howeverhe is a warm character and the audition should perceive him as such.Examples of this self importance can be found a lot in the text. Forexample, on page seven of the text, Mr Birling rambles on about suchnonsense like The unsinkable big, very little chance of aWorld War and of Russ ia cosmos technically and socially behindMr Birling first became acquainted with Eva metalworker when she came towork in his factory two years previously. Mr Birling started off thechain of events which lead to Evas death by firing her from her jobfor inquire for a pay-rise and ( when the rise was refused) fororganising a strike.Although Mr Birling shows relatively little guilt or remorse for Evasdeath, I do not feel that he is entirely responsible as at the end ofthe play he does in fact feel very guilty when the Inspector delivers