An Inspector Calls

“But each of you helped to kill her.” Do you agree with the Inspector’s words or do you think some of the characters are more responsible for Eva’s suicide than others? Discuss. The play “An Inspector Calls” was written in 1945 within a week of World War Two ending but set in the year 1912. The author, J B Priestley set the play in a large suburban house. In 1912 there was a big division between …

…up were he left of. “Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?” Eric and Sheila seem to be the only ones, which seem to have learnt anything, from the whole experience. “We can’t all go on behaving just as we did” Maybe this was Priestley’s message that the future lies with the younger generation who realise that we are responsible not just for our own actions but for each other.