WHO IS INSPECTOR GOOLE AND WHAT IS HIS FUNCTION IN THE PLAY? HOW MAY THIS FUNCTION BE CONVEYED IN PERFORMANCE?

John Boynton Priestley wrote the play, ? An Inspector Calls? in 1941 when the Second World War was being fought. The play involves a supernatural person, who claims to be an Inspector, arriving with the news of a suicide. A young girl has taken her life, due to a series of problems that occurred in her last year or so and everyone in the house at that time is somehow connected with her death, although the audience …showed first 75 words of 3298 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3298 total…the chair she sits on is symbolising the streets are lower class. The production?s elucidation of the Inspector is that he is like a director, he directed events, and that was his purpose. The Inspector was also like a judge, when he was questioning the family, especially Sheila when he acted like a prosecutor. It was also like a courtroom when Sheila spoke to the audience addressing us as if we were the jury.