‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B.Priestley Essay -- Drama

How has observance a production of An examiner Calls by J.B.Priestley enhanced the hired man and furthered your consciousness of the play? Refer to themes and characters in your analysis.An Inspector Calls J.B. Priestley=====================================Twentieth Century Drama Coursework----------------------------------Task How has watching a production of An Inspector Calls byJ.B.Priestley enhanced the script and furthered your understanding ofthe play? Refer to themes and characters in your analysis.Following my reading of An Inspector Calls by J.B.Priestely, I wentto the theatre to see Daldrys production. I found that watching theplay on stage massively enhanced the script and furthered myunderstanding of the play. The use of scenery, sound, lighting,special effects, the actors and their actual movement about the stageall forceful Priestleys moral essence of the play, which he feltwas so necessary to express.The play An Inspector Calls was written by J.B.Priestley in the winter of 1944-1945, when Priestley, as explained in his biography byVincent Brome, had an idea about a mysterious inspector visiting afamily... before the (second world) war. The entire play was writtenat crystalise speed,... and finished within a week. Even though the playwas written in 1945, it was set in 1912 and written on a basis ofPriestleys early influences in life. His childhood home was a placewhere socialist ideas thrived and he had a real experience of workingclass life through and through numerous visits to his grandp bents house innarrow backstreets behind a mill factory. J.B.Priestley was very interested in politics, but could not agree all told with the policies of any one political party. One of themain reasons for him writing An Inspector Calls was to put thelabour party into authority. He was a socialist and based his viewsand actions on compassion, the sort of compassion that the Inspectorwants to see in those he questions in the play.Brumley, where the play is set, is a large manufacturing town in theMidlands. In 1912 nearly 15 million people lived in large towns andcities. Most people worked in manufacturing industries, mining,transport and trade. England had huge social divisions, based largelyon wealth and income. Priestley replicates this scenario when initiativedescribing t... ...outside of his safe world, inside of the house, to answer it. This signifies that he cannot escape reality and must face up to hisactions. Finally, in order to show the that morals and meanings of the play arestill relevant for a modern day audience, in Daldrys production, thehouse lights are switched on for the Inspectors speech and the coremessage of the play he has to deliver. Even though you may bewatching how the Birlings have misbehaved, this is a reminder to theaudience that no one should behave as they did and always face up totheir responsibilities, which is the message Priestley wanted toconvey in his play of An Inspector Calls.To conclude, I fou nd that watching a production of An InspectorCalls immensely enhanced and furthered my understanding of the play,in many ways as explained and analysed thoroughly in this essay. Although Priestleys ideas were noted when reading the play in class,I felt they were conveyed more emotionally had much more meaning whenacted. All plays are supposed to acted in order convey the meaningsof them in this way and I found Daldrys production created thatemotion and meaning extremely effectively.