Why was inspector calls written

We need to remember that the play is set before both world wars and at a time when the British Empire was still a force to be reckoned with internationally. The play is about an Edwardian family who are visited by a character who appears to be a police inspector. She was sacked from two jobs, had two unfortunate love affairs and was turned away by a charity committee while pregnant. The play is made theatrically effective by the twists and turns in the story and an intriguing chain of events.

Reviews over the next decades of Inspector and his other works were mixed, but a production of Inspector in the s in London revived interest. An Inspector Calls might be understood in several contexts. First, it is an example of immediate post-war drama, which means that it was written after World War Two.

Post-war dramas take up some of the economic, political, and social issues prompting that conflict, including socialism versus free-market capitalism, democracy versus fascism, and communal versus individual rights and privileges. It is also a historical drama, as it is set in the run-up to the World War One. This produces instances of dramatic irony throughout the play.

Characters refer to the possibility of World War One, and of later calamities that would seem, to the post-World War Two audience, pivotal and lamentable landmarks in world history. The small-scale but devastating violence described in the play points to the slaughter of many thousands that will occur only a few years after its narrated action. Second, An Inspector Calls marks the beginning of a turn from the literary period of realism to what would later be called the postmodern, the absurdist, or the surreal.

Third, the performance history of the play sheds some light on its possible meanings, both at the time of its composition and in later interpretations. The play opened in the Soviet Union in , and therefore reached its first audiences in Russian. Responsibility In An Inspector Calls, the central theme is responsibility. Priestley is interested in our personal responsibility.

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