Arthur Birling Essay

presents Arthur Birling as unlikable in a variety of different manners. In the beginning of the play Birling is presented as an embodiment of capitalistic views and a caricature of a capitalist, as he continually boasts about how community to him is insignificant to him and people who have a socialist mentality are all bunched together “like bees in a hive”. We can first imply this from his statement of “community and all that nonsense”. Within this quotation we can see that Arthur Birling has a dismissive

Arthur Birling and Sheila Birling in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley I have chosen to write my essay about Mr.Arthur Birling and Mrs. Sheila Birling. I have chosen these characters because they have different views on the events concerning Eva Smith. Sheila, for instance, felt extremely regretful about the incident involving the sacking of Eva Smith and we can tell this because she says 'And I'm desperately sorry' neither did she show any relief after hearing that

“Arthur Birling is a proud man who cares only for himself and his reputation.” Throughout J.B. Priestley’s play “An Inspector Calls” we are shown that the character of Arthur Birling is portentous and absolutely concerned about his own standing in society, having once been at the very bottom of the social ladder, and his reputation to the extent that we see not much else fazes him. All through the events of this play Mr Birling is only worried about what effect they would have on him and his position

Comparison of The Attitudes Of Arthur Birling And Sheila Birling From An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestley was first performed in 1945. The play was set in 1912 before the war; it centres on the wealthy Birling family. A visit from the mysterious Inspector Goole, during the celebration of Sheila Birling's and Gerald Croft's engagement, proves to be a horrifying experience for them as they learn that they have all played a part in the suicide

The Role of Arthur Birling in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley I am going to investigate the role of Arthur Birling in the play “An Inspector calls. Arthur Birling is the head of the family, he is rich and bad-tempered. He doesn’t care about anyone unless they are making him look good or richer. He is a very traditional man, and within his family, he likes to believe that what he says goes. Mr Birling is a pompous man in his mid fifties. At the beginning of the

Arthur Birling at the Beginning of Act One in An Inspector Calls JB Priestly wrote the play of ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945 but set the play in 1912, Edwardian Britain. The writer intentionally set the play in 1912 to make the audience aware of social conscience. Another reason why the play was set in 1912 was because, some of the historical events mentioned in the play, the audience would be familiar with as they would have lived through the time and would know the real results of how they

the beginning, Mr. Birling is described as a prosperous manufacturer, a wealthy man that has two children, Eric and Sheila, and a wife, Sybil Birling. This character is very sure of himself, but socially speaking, he is inferior to his wife. In the play, he is in a really difficult situation since an inspector appears at his house and says that all his family has the blame of a girl´s suicide, but he does not handle it very well. Priestley makes the reader dislike Mr. Birling by making him say and

Arthur Birling says: “If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?” How does Priestley present ideas about responsibility in An Inspector Calls? In An Inspector Calls, one of the main themes is responsibility. Priestley is interested in our personal responsibility for our own actions and our collective responsibility to society. The play explores the effect of class, age and sex on people's attitudes to

A Comparative Essay An Inspector Calls vs A Study In Scarlet 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. The way in which An Inspector Calls and Study in Scarlet are written creates

into the plot was very innovative, because even though it had been done before, it had never been done this well. Jerome Robbins had thought of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet to a Broadway musical in 1949. He began discussions with librettist Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein of a musical called East Side Story, with a plot concentrating on a Catholic girl and a Jewish boy. Other projects forced the work aside for six years, and when they returned to it, times had changed. Their