Inspector Goole in J.B.Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls :: English Literature

What is the function of Inspector Goole in J.B.Priestleys play, AnInspector Calls?An Inspector Calls was written in 1945 by John Boynton Priestley. Theplay was set in 1912 two years before the first world war so from thistheir would have been irony as the listening would know. The play isset in a dining room in the Birlings residence in Brumley, NorthMidlands which was a fictional industrial city. At the time the playwas set the world was a very class conscience place with higher andlower class depending on nonpareil thing money. The country was set up intwo categories with the socialists which consists of the PoliticalSystem in which ways of community and sharing are promoted andcapitalists which is the political carcass which values privateownership and the individual. The country really was involved aroundcapitalist values. For example there was no welfare state. In thisessay I will be focusing on the main functions of the inspector. Theinspectors role is a key to the plot and conclusion and deliversmorals and principles and how the functions of the inspector get usedin specific places throughout the play.The play opens with the Birling family and Gerald celebrating theengagement of Gerald and Sheila. It is dramatically effective becauseyou get to see all the characters in one room therefore sightedness theirpersonalities, instead of them being introduced one-by-one. They arecelebrating and at ease which means they are a little bit drunk. The belief is very relaxed and everyone having a nice time. From the full stopdirections it says the mood is pink and internal. We learn fromMr.Birling that he is selfish and a capitalist from his speech. Hesums himself up within the opening of the play saying that a man hasto mind his own business and look after himself and his own-and-(actone page 11) this indicates that he is a selfish man and cares for hisfamily only (Mr.Birling is a capitalist). The mood is soon to changefrom relaxed and chilled to harsh when the inspector arrives. At thelast rallying cry of Mr. Birlings speech the door bell rings at the right timeto take in tension, the doorbell ring was purposely put their to createtension and to stop Birling preaching about capitalist views. Itsclever even how one word and can be such a tensional word as thedoor bell rings. In the stage directions the lighting should be pinkand intimate until the inspector arrives, and then it should bebrighter and harder it changes to as if all the characters were being