How Priestly Uses the Characters to Represent His Own Views on Society :: An Inspector Calls Edwardian Society Essays

How Priestly Uses the Characters to Represent His Own Views on SocietyThe play An examiner C every last(predicate)s is set in 1912 but was written in 1945.Edwardian order at that time (1912) was strictly divided into social assortes and over two-thirds of the nations wealthiness was in the hands ofless than 1% of the population. Below the very loaded were the middleclasses (doctors and merchants, shop workers and clerks), after thatcame the craftsmen and skilled workers. At the very infiltrate of thesocial ladder was the largest class of all - the ordinary workers andthe poor, many of whom lived infra the poverty level. The men ofindustry treated the workers very badly and they were compensable pittance.This caused workers to become better organised and strikes werebecoming more frequent as they demanded better conditions and higherpay. J.B. Priestley was writing the play for a middle class audienceand was trying to speak up for the working class by showing how thelogrollings a nd Gerald Croft were all involved in making a puppylike workingclass misss life a misery. Priestley wants to show us that we sacrifice aresponsibility to others to act fairly and with unwrap prejudice and thatwe do non live in isolation. Our actions affect others. This is theconcept of collective responsibility. Priestley says, things couldreally make better if only people were to become more socially responsiblefor the upbeat of others. We have to confront our mistakes and learnfrom them.The play starts off with the Birling family celebrating theirdaughters day of the month to Gerald Croft. The family included Mr Birling,Mrs Birling, Eric Birling, Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft. ArthurBirling is glad because Gerald is the son of his business rivalryand it will be a merger of businesses. Through the middle of the dinner there is a knock at the door. This is where we meet inspectorGoole. He tells the family that a girl has committed suicide and thatin one mien or another th ey are responsible. Mr Birling was responsiblefor sacking the girl from his factory. Sheila Birling was responsiblebecause she got the girl sacked from a shop where she works. EricBirling was seeing her but the broke it off, and Gerald Croft washaving an affair with her but he besides broke it off. All of theirmorals are tested and they are all put to the test because none ofthem really know the truth intimately what they have done until theinspector brings it out of them. After the inspector goes the familyfinds out that he was a fake and that no girl had died.