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 Birling, son of Mr. Birling and brother to Sheila, is one of the more complex characters in J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls. Throughout the play, Eric struggles with his own identity, often feeling like an outsider within his family. He is described as “half...
In the play An Inspector Calls, J.B. Priestley presents Mr. Arthur Birling as a wealthy businessman with strong capitalist beliefs. He is portrayed as a self-made man who has enjoyed success in local politics, including his position as Lord Mayor of Brumley. However, as the...
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...
