Essays on Inspector Goole

In An Inspector Calls, Priestley portrays inspector Goole as a peculiar mysterious man. His name Goole having the same pronunciation as “ghoul”, in another word a ghost/spirit. This suggests perhaps someone who has an interest in death and maybe is sent as Eva’s afterlife to...

Inspector Goole’s entrance is very important as it affects the whole mood and atmosphere. It says in the stage directions that the lighting should be pink and intimate, as it is a joyful occasion for the Birling family, until the Inspector arrives and then it...

The Inspector introduces himself as Inspector Goole, a police officer who has come to scrutinize about a young woman called Eva Smith/Daisy Renton. Half way through act one when the Inspector arrives, J.B Priestley describes him as a man of “massiveness, solidity and purposefulness” this...

J. B. Priestley represented a huge conflicts between representer of democracy and self-regulated in capitalism, when another one follows communistic ideas. One of his best known plays, ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by British playwright John Priestley, in 1945, after the Second World War. Nevertheless,...

‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by J.B Priestly in 1946, just after the second world war. It focuses on the visit to the Birling family by a mysterious inspector. Priestley uses the character of Inspector Goole to represent a ‘god like’ figure who can also...