Inspector Goole Essay Examples and Topics

The play, “An Inspector Calls”, was written by JB Priestley in 1944, after the world war ll. The play is set in the fictitious town of Brumley in England during spring in 1912. The plot develops around a suicide case of a girl named Eva…

Inspector Goole and Mr Birling represent the opposing political systems of Socialism and Capitalism. Priestley believed that Capitalism had been partly responsible for the terrible events of 1914 to 1945 and that there was a need for a kinder society in which wealth was shared…

Mr Birling is a capitalistic man in the middle class who only cares about earning a profit and is also a selfish man who only cares for himself and his money. Mr Birling is very different from Inspector Goole, “bees in a hive – community…

J. B Priestley presents the character of Inspector Goole as prophetic, omniscient and almost God-like. Inspector Goole created ‘an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness’, the use of tripling emphasises the Inspector’s power, strength and authority over the Birlings and Gerald Croft. Also, the stage…