inspector

• "INSPECTOR" who played a part in someone's "demise"
• Responsibility


  Embodiment of social responsibility
• The "Inspector" says "It's better to ask for the earth than to take it"
• The "Inspector" says "Public have responsibilities as well as privileges"
• Inspector


  Plays a part in Eva's demise
• Priestley was appalled at the period between WWI and WWII since it brought widespread poverty
• The inspector is an embodiment of social responsibility
• Public men have responsibilities as well as privileges
• The inspector is not defending him, but Sheila must understand that a lot of young men are hard-eyed and down-faced
• J.B. Priestley was born in Bradford and saw poverty in his neighbourhood frequently, which influenced his socialist values
• Eternal recurrence 


  Ouspeskeys theory - change has to take place by leaning for your actions
• The play ends with the family being left alone in darkness symbolising that they are now isolated from society and have been punished for their sins.
• Perhaps, it can be inferred that Priestley was trying to prevent eternal recurrence as he was greatly influenced by the Russian Philospher Ouspensky who believed that if man didn’t learn from their
• behaviour and learn from their mistakes they would live in a never ending cycle of the same behaviour
• we are all members of one body
• we are all responsible for eachother
• socialist ideas were very popular at this time because people had just come out of WW1 where there was great inequality between classes
• Priestly wanted to show how the upper class treated the lower class badly and how they could get away with it due to their wealth and status
• the idea of socialism is that everyone is equal and no-one is better than anyone else