A well run business Essay

J. B. Priestley An Inspector Calls is a play set in 1912 in the Birlings family dining room. It was written in 1945 and set in Brumley. It features a typical affluent upper class family who own a well run business. The play starts with a small family celebration in which the daughter, Sheila Birling, is acquire engaged to Gerald (a business man of the same class). The head of the family, a very prominent opinionated man, makes several toasts to the couple and lectures them more or less his knowledge of the world. Everything is going cosily until an unexpected visitor turns up on the Birling familys doorstep.Its a very sleek, mysterious inspector. The Inspector brings news of a young misss suicide. The Birling Family and Gerald first deny all connections with the suicide until the inspector rigorously questions each one of them and their shameful secrets are revealed. One of the reasons why J. B. Priestleys An Inspector Calls has remained popular is because there is some hope for t he younger generation. During most of the play the atmosphere is depressing, drab and sad. The play is based on the inspector accusing each member of helping with the suicide of the young girl.The family all concentrate on how its not their fault. They try to blame it on each other and remain in a haze of selfishness. Towards the end of the play the younger generation, mostly Sheila, rise above this haze and look at the consequences. Sheila says But youre forgetting one thing everything we said had really happened and if it didnt end with the girls suicide, then lucky for us. But it might have done. Sheila rises above the dilemma and tries to turn the investigation of the inspector from a depressing and pointless conversation to a well learned lesson.During this Mr and Mrs Birling seem not to care about their harsh involvement with the girl. The younger generation care more and are deeply affected with their participation of the suicide. During An Inspector Calls both the childre n argue with their parents. Eric accuses Mr Birling as Not the kind of father a chap could go to when hes in trouble. Mr Birling disagrees sternly with Eric and makes a point that he has treat him more than fairly. Mr Birling argues back with Your trouble is that you have been spoilt.