Directing A New Production Of An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly :: English Literature

Directing A New Production Of An quizzer Calls by J. B. Priestly, With special(prenominal) Reference To Act Two, Page 33 (in Heinemann Plays An Inspector Calls), And The Characters Of The Inspector And Mrs. birlThe two characters that I bugger off chosen - the inThe two characters that I have chosen from the play, An InspectorCalls, be the Inspector and Mrs. Birling. I chose these charactersbecause they have rattling contrasting personalities.The Inspector is called Goole, which symbolises a ghoul and reflectson his personality. He is very probing when he asks the familyquestions and obviously has experience with interrogating people. Heis very direct and quite blunt when he is questioning the Birlingfamily. In the BBC video version of the play, it was quite obviousthat the Inspector was not a normal man as soon as he entered theroom. This may have been helped by dramatic music, but it was alsoevident in the play.The Inspector enters, and Edna goes, closing the door after her. TheInspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impressionof massiveness, solidity and purposefully He speaks carefully,weightily, and has a confuse habit of looking hard at the personhe addresses in the lead actually discourse.As soon as the Inspector enters the room, the different characters areimmediately aware of this impression of massiveness. In the BBCvideo the Inspector was quite an old man and he looked feeble in away, but he still created this effect when he spoke to the othercharacters. He seems to have a gift to be able to puddle people feeluncomfortable and guilty when he wants.INSPECTOR Thats much or less what I was thinking earlier tonight,when I was in the infirmary looking at what was left of Eva Smith. Anice brusk promising life there, I thought, and a nasty messsomebodys do of it.BIRLING looks as if he is about to make some retort, hence thinksbetter of it, and goes out, closing the door sharply behind him.GERALD and ERIC exchange tense gla nces. The INSPECTOR ignores them.This is a particularly good quote because it shows the Inspectors wayof speaking and the characters reactions to him. It seems that MrBirling cannot even confront the Inspector and has to leave the room,even though Mr Birling was Lord Mayor which gives him authority over a police force Inspector, and is of a higher class than the Inspector, whichshould give him confidence.Mrs Birling is the quiet wife of the successful owner of Birling andCo. She is a very high-class noblewoman who could be described as posh.