In J.B Priestley’s timeless, symbolic sermon about social conscience, he explores the change in Eric Birling: from an intractable and pompous juvenile to a mature and increasingly confident socialist. His transformation is perhaps the easiest for the audience to relate to: he blames the world...
Eric is a character in the book “The Inspector calls” which is presented by J.B. Priestley. Eric is Mr. Birling’s son and brother to Sheila. He is portrayed to be “half shy”, which suggests that he has a lack of confidence because he feels that...
In the play An Inspector Calls Priestley presents Mr Birling as a businessman who has had several successes over the years and who has been active in local politics as Lord Mayor of Brumley, although it becomes evident as the play progresses that Mr Birling...
In J.B Priestley’s allegorical well-made whodunnit play, about moral principles and social humanitarian conscience, the character of Eric Birling is developed from a sexist misinformed character who blindly advocates to the corresponding selfish materialistic perspectives and capitalist ideologies as his nouveau riche hubris father; to...