Goole

John Boynton Priestley was born on 13th September 1894 in Bradford, Yorkshire and died in 1984. Queen Victoria died in 1901 (when Priestley was seven years old), thus ending the ‘Victorian’ era. Her son then became King Edward VII, which was the start of what we know as the ‘Edwardian’ era. When Priestley was sixteen he left school and worked in a firm of wool merchants, but joined the army and served in the First World War, (1914-18) on the front line in France. He was wounded and gassed.

The Role of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls Examine the role of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls & study the impact his role has on the rest of the characters in the play. Inspector Goole is the most important character in the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ because he is the catalyst for the events that take place in the play. Priestley’s intensions were to reveal to his audience the social state of England in 1945. He felt that little had changed since the turn of the century. Preistley

Dramatic Functions of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley In the play An Inspector Calls, a message is being portrayed to the reader by J. B Priestley and in my opinion, the main bearer of this message is the inspector. Being of an ambiguous nature, he appears to live in a different world to the family with whom he deals; the Birlings and it is his dramatic function in the play that I shall be analysing. Firstly, we have the Stage Instructions

The Inspector Goole controls the flow of the play by making sure only one person speaks at a time. The author who is J.B Priestley is using the inspector as his own voice because he believed in social responsibilities and throughout his life he liked people implementing his thought. We know that the Inspector controls the flow of the play because he says “One line of enquiry at a time." He strictly ensures that each character speaks in turn so that the orders of events which contributed to Eva’s

knows the Brumley Police Force, yet makes it clear that he does not know the inspector either by face or name. Birling “warn(s)” the Inspector that he is a friend of the Constable, a warming that may be a threat to the Inspector that he could get Goole fired. However, unlike a normal policeman, the possibility of losing his job does not

An Inspector Calls ‘What do you think is the importance of inspector Goole and how does Priestley present him?’ J.B Priestly employs a various methods to present the inspector as well as showing his importance such as stage directions and from the language he uses. These methods allow us to understand and relate to the moral messages put across in the play. The inspector right from the moment he is introduced is commanding of the situation and already has that authority he displays later on

focus on this visitor, Inspector Goole.    Another dramatic device used in the play is the dramatic irony that is used very early on in the play. Mr Birling claims that the titanic is

from the Inspector Goole becomes a terrifying experience for the Birlings, as they find out that they have all played a part in a young girls suicide. J.B Priestley wrote this play after world war II in 1945, and

What do you think is the importance of Inspector Goole and how does Priestley present him? Inspector Goole creates a massive presence within ‘An Inspector Calls’ and through him we are able to explore each character and Priestly himself. The Inspector is a vital character within the play and allows Priestly to channel through his thoughts, feelings and messages to society by creating the seemingly omniscient Inspector Goole. In the essay I will illustrate the importance of the Inspector and demonstrate

a power shift from Mr birling and inspector Goole I can tell this by the language that inspector Goole. A quote that supports my point is ‘nothing to do with you, Sheila. Run along’. The inspector says ‘no wait a minute, miss birling’. Mr birling says to his daughter ‘nothing to do with you’. This quote shows us that Inspector Goole challenges Mr birling by controlling his daughter Sheila. This quote is significant because it shows that inspector Goole can stop an order that was not given to him