The Thriller Like Suspense in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley Essa

The Thriller Like Suspense in An Inspector Calls by J.B. PriestleyAn Inspector Calls is a perfect tense play. It contains theatricalexcitement in the thriller- uniform suspense of the Inspectors inquiryit has a moral message and it is very tightly constructed. Do youagree with this record?The play An Inspector Calls was written by J.B Priestly. The playis set in 1912, in the Edwardian Era, in a fictional town calledBrumley, an industrial metropolis in the North Midlands.When Priestly wrote the play in 1945, valet War II was just ending. The play is set two years before World War I, in 1912, and in the yearof the Titanic.In the Edwardian Era, known as the Golden Age for some classes,upper and middle classes led a pleasant life. They had everythingthey needed and plenty of money.The upper class, which, in the play, includes Mrs birling, GeraldCroft and his parents, Mr and Mrs Croft, were hardhearted people. Theupper class owned factories and businesses and employed the middleclass, like Mr Birling, to run them. The working class, like EvaSmith, were the employees who worked for many hours and minute pay. The upper class did not work, but were wealthy and many of them wereassociated with royalty.It was not a Golden Age for the working class though. They hadlittle money and struggled to stay alive due to lack of food andemployment. They worked in factories or coalmines owned by the upperclass.The entire play is set in one room, the dining room. The play beginswith the Birling family, who appear respectable, celebrating theengagement between their daughter, Shelia Birling, and Gerald Croft,when an Inspector calls to question them regarding a suicide incidentof a young... ...Shelia, but not at the same time. Gerald, Eric and Mrs Birling do notsee the photograph, this is because they knew her by name, but she hadseveral different names. She was known to Gerald as Daisy Rentonwhereas, Eric knew her as Eva Smith and Mrs Birling said Eva Smithcalled herself Mrs Bir ling.The audience is left to wonder why the Inspector has only shown thisphotograph to two people and whether or not it was the samephotograph. This is another(prenominal) clue to the audience to show that he maynot be a real Inspector.An Inspector Calls has been a very successful play because it is pleasant to watch. The play holds the audiences attention becauseof the continuous action. The play today continues to be very popularand the moral or message Priestly tries to dedicate across, treat peoplehow you want to be treated, still applies to a modern audience.