“An Inspector calls” - Coursework Priestley use the inspector to comment on social injustice ?IntroductionThe play “an inspector calls” is set in the year 1912, the same year that the great ship Titanic sunk. The author of this play John Boynton Priestley has used this time to show how social classes worked and how bad it actually was.The play itself is set in a large house owned by a rich factory owner, Mr. Birling. Mr. Birling has a wife and two children, Sheila and Eric. The family are having a small party because they are celebrating the engagement of Sheila, Birlings daughter, to Gerald Croft. Gerald is the son of a great man who also owns a factory and Mr. Birling sees this as a chance to get into the big money.The party carries on into a happy mood when suddenly an inspector calls. He tells them of a girl who has killed herself and soon everyone has something to do with this inquiry in one way or another, but did this suicide really happen.My view of the class system as a whole is that it’s pointless and breeds. Yet then it was considered a great thing and that it was the only possible way to get through life, either being rich or poor. To a person of the nineties this may seem a terrible way to carry on life. If you really think about it though you would see that it made the standards of Britain high and it’s position in the world greater than others.How does J.B. Priestley use the inspector to comment on social injustice ?The play “An inspector calls” has a great story in it. Yet if you take out the story the play comments very strongly on social injustice in the early nineteen hundreds. There are many points of snobbery in the play whilst the inspector is there and also when he isn’t. For example the following quote is a solid piece of evidence from the play of the social life.Birling: ……I have an idea that your mother- Lady Croft- while she does...
