1. “Please, sir, an inspector's called.”
ACT ONE
“Please, sir, an inspector's called.”

2. Dramatic Irony
By setting the play in the past, Priestley can make use of dramatic irony – the audience knows what happens after the events in the play but obviously the characters don’t.
Why would a writer use this device?
What kind of effect does it have on an audience?

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Analysis
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Mr Birling
Mrs Birling
Sheila Birling
Eric Birling
Gerald Croft
Eva Smith
Inspector Goole
Social Responsibility
Class System
Women's Right
Capitalism
Socialism
Generational Differences
Act 1 Quotes
Act 2 Quotes
Act 3 Quotes
J.B. Priestly
Dramatic Tension
Audience in 1945

4. Eva Smith / Daisy Renton
Arthur Birling
Head of Birling family, capitalist businessman
Sybil Birling
Birling’s snobby wife
Inspector Goole
A police inspector sent to investigate Eva Smith’s suicide
Eva Smith / Daisy Renton
A young working-class woman with connections to the Birlings
Gerald Croft
Sheila’s fiancé, and son of Birling’s business rival
Sheila Birling
Birling’s daughter and Gerald’s fiancée
Eric Birling
The youngest Birling

6. Act One Stage Directions Mr Arthur Birling Gerald Croft Sheila Birling
Mrs Sybil Birling
Edna – The Birlings’ maid
Eric Birling
Inspector Goole

7. First Impressions
Arthur: a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in this speech.
Sybil: about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior.
Gerald: an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the well-bred young man-about-town.
Sheila: a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
Eric: in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.
Annotate the descriptions of the main characters

8. Inspector Goole
The Inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties, dressed in a plain darkish suit of the period. He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking.