Owen's Short Story: An Inspector Calls

Written in 1947, J.B. Priestley's didactic murder-mystery, An Inspector Calls, accentuates the fraudulent Edwardian era in which the play was set. Britain in 1912 was inordinately different to Britain in 1947, where a country annihilated by war was determined to right the wrongs of a society before them. In 1912 Britain was at the height of Edwardian society, known as the "Golden Age". A quarter of the globe was coloured red, denoting the vast and powerful Empire and all Britons, no matter what class

"Where is he?!" The rough and gruff voice of one of the guards make Jimin smirk, twisting the gun lightly in his hands. As the footsteps neared closer to the hallway of the office, Jimin turned his body and shot the man in the chest, resulting in a garbled scream. With the thud of his body, Jimin jumped out of his hiding spot, sprinting down the long and empty hallway. It was nearly twelve at night, so luckily everyone was out by

The smell of coffee filled the police station. “Morning, Sami!” called officer Turner, who was drinking a cup of said coffee. I was walking to my desk when, “Homicide on 9753 Shady Leaf Alley!” was yelled from officer Reinerman’s desk. I stopped and remembered. The last time I went there was…..was…..it doesn’t matter. The past is the past. I went with officer Reinerman and officer Wyler to the police car. We drove to the alley.

Slam! The door behind us slams shut because one of the idiotic crew members forgot I told Steven to be a look out and only four of us were going in. It was Lucy, Frank, Josh, and I going into the Bushnell Police Department. We were in need of ammo or just some type of weapons. Lucy had a crowbar, Frank had a wood baseball bat with nails in it, Josh had a Katana but it was on its last stand, and I had a Glock 19 with two bullets and an old pipe I found when we went through ST.Louis. We are heading north because the “infected” can’t move well when it is cold outside and it helps more if it is snowing. But we ran into a problem. Josh needs a new weapon and Frank got bit on the leg. When someone gets bit they only last about 20 hours then they get a fever, stomach ache, sharp pains in the back or stomach area, and many more problems. So that leaves us here, in a police station with a guy who can turn into an infected any second. Plus we don’t know who or what is inside the station. People that are alive say infected are more of an easy target than humans. We are only 7 meters into the station and I seen something move down the hall. I brought up my gun so that it was eye height with me. We slowly walked down the hall looking from one room to another. Once we got to the end of the station, near the back where they kept the cells, we seen him. It looked like a young boy maybe 17-18 years of age.

An Inspector Calls is a play written by J. B. Priestley in 1945 about the prosperous Birling family being confronted by a Police Inspector who reveals during the play each family member's involvement in a young woman's suicide. The play has socialist undertones, as Priestly was a prominent socialist himself. The play is set in spring 1912 in the dining room of the Birlings house in Brumley, just before the First World War. It was first performed 1 October 1946 to an audience who had just lived through the Second World War.

An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls, by J.B. Priestly, is the story of the visit by an Inspector to an apparently normal family, the Birlings. They are celebrating Sheila Birling's engagement to Gerald Croft, who is also present, when the Inspector arrives telling them of the suicide of a young girl called Eva Smith. At first they deny any knowledge of the girl, but as the play goes on the Inspector manages to show that they all helped kill her. Mr Birling had her dismissed from his factory for demanding a small increase in wages; Sheila ordered her to be dismissed from her job in a shop simply because of her pride; Gerald Croft kept her as his mistress before leaving her suddenly;

Deciding not to comment on the strange nickname as he was sure if he asked, he wouldn't understand. Arthur is a strange person and Flynn found it was easier to ignored his more strange tendency like not touching anything with his bare hand. "What was that?" Flynn question, his suspicions making him follow the other into the kitchen. If his locks was really tamper it, the blond was going to raise hell about it.

This essay will explore the representation of the mystery genre through J.B Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls and Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet. The extent to which the detectives are shown to be archetypal characters of the genre will be discussed, as well as the various ways different literary conventions add to the tone of suspense and mystery.

While driving home one day, I had the urge to go to my mailbox and check to see if there was anything there for me. Now, I never get the mail, so when I suddenly decided to go get the mail, it struck me as odd. When I finally got the mail, there was a postcard assigned directly to me. Not to my mom or dad, but me. Attached to this postcard was some sort of golden ticket, so I decided to wait till I was in the privacy of my room to open this and look at it. So when I was able to race up to my room to open this mysterious postcard, the ticket glowed, and not just a light glow like the kind you get from a glow stick, but more of a glow you get from a fire - a fierce and powerful glow. Not only did it give off this glow, but it also came with instructions,

I didn’t hate the babysitter. I despised her. “Well, I’m the boss now” or “Young lady, you follow my orders” or “I know what’s better for you than you do” was said to me every single day. Unfortunately for her, though, I just had a genius plan to teach a lesson that miss know-it-all.

It all started when Ed was being fired from his 69 job. He felt like all his bosses were being biased; however, it was all Ed’s fault. Ed wanted to persuade his lifelong dream working in a wood shop, but he keeps being fired, due to his careless behavior. On that windy day, he sat on the curb thinking what will he do with his life, he is only 21 years old. Suddenly, a flyer smacked him right on his face, he peeled it off to see a workshop for sale and decided to buy it. Now no one can fire him, except himself. He hired 6 workers to keep his store running, but they were all newbies, reckless and unorganized. One of the workers liked to run around the messy shop and tripped over some briefcases while the other one liked to cartwheel. Ed’s clueless workers could have split their brains into a million pieces. Another worker will not clean up the spill he made on the floor, creating a slipping hazard. He also did not follow simple instruction, which is you cannot bring

He came out of the lab and started breaking into houses and spreading the virus. He went to community after community, and then he took off to city after city. He would keep doing this until he had taken over a country. Then, he would take a continent.

The noise intensified as he got closer to the great hall, the mixing of his colleagues and foreign languages. It was little after one o’clock as he returns from his lunch break on the north side, greeted by the new arrival from the ferryboat and piercing sounds of officials reciting announcements. Long lines of families with parcel sling over their backs, started to fill the docks and quickly it became congested. He hurried back upstairs the takeover post and as he entered, the overwhelming sounds of people talking were all too familiar on a busy day like today. He motioned to his coworker that he was back, so they stopped the line and met him halfway. They conversed awhile, and then took over duty. Introducing himself as Inspector Dane Wright,

“At last!” he breathed, his eyes filling with delight as they were captured by the stunning view in front of him.

What aspects of British society does the play criticise?JB Priestly wrote his play, ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945 post-war Britain a country still healing her wounds from World War Two. The play is based on a moral teaching and responsibility. Priestly fights for the proletariat through the character of the Inspector. Priestly decides to craft his characters, setting them in the strongly capitalist world of 1912, in order to criticise aspects and characteristics of his own society. To do this, he models and shapes the character of Inspector Goole to be one that challenges the characters and audience, this shows a strong social conviction. The Inspector is confirmed to be the figure with the highest moral authority. The Birling family are an archetype of the bourgeoisie society of 1912. As the play was produced in 1945 it allowed the spectators in retrospect to be able to understand the humour and poor judgement made in the drama by certain characters, this puts the audience at and advantage and favourable position over the characters.JB Priestly was born into a middle class family, growing up amongst socialites influenced him, it enabled him to portray the Birling family very well.One of the biggest ways the British society is criticised in the play is the generational clash that we see between the older generation - Arthur and Sybil Birling who uphold there traditional values and views and the younger generation - Eric and Sheila Birling who are keen to see the world in a different perspective and willing to challenge the authority their parents have over them, and we mustn’t forget Eva Smith who also was part of the younger generation who are determined and motivated. Eva “had a lot to say” and her courage is the reason why Birling sacked her. Even though Gerald is young he holds similar views to Mr and Mrs Birling due to his aristocratic roots which influence him, which depicts him as a young man who is already old and very mature in his attitude and mental state, so he sides with the older generation. The older and younger generation take the Inspector’s message in different ways. Priestly uses the two different reactions of the family to criticise the older generation through the dialogue of the younger