inspector calls

• The play begins with the Birling family
• Members of the Birling family


  • Mr Birling
  • Mrs Birling
  • Eric Birling
  • Sheila Birling
• Mr Birling


  The head of the Birling family, a rich powerful capitalist. Middle Class
• Mrs Birling


  Also known as Sybil Birling, the wife of Mr Birling. Born Upper class, Married down into Middle Class. Also head of a charity
• Eric Birling


  The son of the Birling family, a bit of a lost cause, drunk and confused. Middle Class
• Sheila Birling


  The daughter of the Birling family, lives in a bubble of money and status. Middle Class
• The play begins with the engagement celebration of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft
• Gerald Croft


  From another rich powerful family, marrying Sheila to unite the wealth and power. Upper Class
• The play is set in 1912, two years before World War 1
• Mr Birling makes claims about war never happening and the Titanic being unsinkable, which is dramatic irony
• Dramatic irony


  When the audience knows something the characters do not
• Mr Birling represents the ideology of capitalism
• The engagement ring


  Symbolises power and control over Sheila
• Mr Birling criticises socialism


  Inspector Goole then arrives, representing socialism
• Inspector Goole reveals that a young woman named Eva Smith has committed suicide
• Mr Birling had previously fired Eva Smith from his factory for asking for a higher wage
• Sheila Birling also got Eva Smith fired from her job at Milwards department store
• Gerald Croft had an affair with Eva Smith when she changed her name to Daisy Renton
• Mrs Birling refused to help Eva Smith when she came to her charity for assistance
• Eric Birling got Eva Smith pregnant and stole money from his father's business to support her
• Inspector Goole: 'One Eva Smith is dead, but there are thousands of Eva Smiths and if you don't learn, you will be taught in fire, blood and anguish'
• The inspector's final speech is a warning about the consequences of the Birling family's actions
• nd Eric begins to give her money and she takes the money and then she learns that Eric is stealing the money and she says look I can't take any more of your money peace out see you later
• Mr Burling being the lovely caring father he is and being the just man that he is he doesn't care not one bit Eric has been around with this chick he only cares about this money he wants to know where did you get this money from what a disgusting man that he is guys he doesn't care about what his son's been up to rather he cares so much just about the money
• we learn that Eric was stealing the money from his dad's business and Mr Burling says you will make sure you pay every single penny back
• the inspector: 'look one Eva Smith is dead but there are thousands of Eva Smiths and if you guys don't learn you will be taught in fire blood and anguisher'
• The inspector leaves


  The characters have a bit of a back and forth
• Sheila Burling calls out her parents saying you guys haven't learned anything you guys haven't even understood or accepted what you guys did
• Gerald comes in and Gerald says I just found out that that Inspector Inspector Gould isn't even a real Police Inspector so our hands are not guilty we are free
• Sheila Burling and Eric like what are you guys talking about he may not be a real political Factor but your crimes your crimes still stand use actor for more money youth actor from milwards you had an affair with her you treated her unjustly when you did not give her money in the charity or help in the charity Eric you had sex with them multiple times you got her pregnant and again you left her abandoned you all committed crimes but you don't care
• the phone rings for a second time and this is the true punishment coming because they did not change fully because they don't they did not see the error of the ways this phone rings and they are told that now A girl has died and an inspector is coming to their house
• the first inspector was not a real inspector he was the embodiment of a second chance he was the embodiment of socialism look fix up fix up and your punishment you will avoid it but they do not their punishment arrives
• Capitalism


  An ideology where the most important things are money and self-interest
• Socialism


  The belief that we should all be equal and care for each other as a community
• Patriarchy


  A society dominated by men where women are weaker and sexualized
• Freud's Id


  Our raw instincts and desires that we are slaves to
• Mr Burling: 'A man has to make his own way, has to look after himself and his family too'
• Inspector Goole: 'We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And the time will come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.'
• Inspector Ghoul: 'You can't ignore other people, you can't neglect other people. Why? If one part of your body hurts, your entire body hurts. And that is what he is saying here. We are members, we've signed up to a club and together we form a body and this body can only work if everyone who's in the body works together.'
• If your finger hurts

  Your whole body's gonna hurt