An inspector calls

Cards (5)

  • The inspector interrupts Mr birling capitalist speech

    we hear a sharp ring at the doorbell
  • Shiela recognises his authority
    ‘Why you fool he knows’
  • The inspector gave one final socialist speech
    One Eva smith has gone- but there are millions and millions of Eva and John smiths still left with us
  • The inspector reveals the birling hypocrisy
    ‘You think young woman ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things’
  • Introduction
    An inspector calls was a play written by priestly to promote socialism at the end of WW2. The inspector acts as Priestly’s mouthpiece to reveal the dangers of capitalism, as represented by the Birling family, on the vunerable of society represented as Eva Smith