Consider Each of the Characters in "An Inspector Calls".
and Discuss who you think is the most Responsible for the Suicide of Eva Smith.
"An Inspector Calls" is a play written by J.B Priestly in 1944. However the play it self is set in 1912. The play starts in the Birling household. The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter, Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. The Birlings are a middle-classed but a high profiled family who run their own family business. Mr Gerald Croft belongs to the Croft family who are very similar to the Birlings. They also have their own family business. This happy and joyous occasion of the engagement is then disrupted when an inspector called Inspector Goole enters the scene. He informs everyone that a girl had committed suicide that day after swallowing some "strong" disinfectant. The Inspector then questions everyone member of the family including Mr Croft regarding the suicide. .
Mr Birling is a successful businessman who only cares about himself , his family and probably the most important of all his public profile. He is a "hard headed" businessman. He does not care about anyone else. He is very class-conscious like his wife. You can see this when he says,.
"But what so many of you don't seem to understand now, when things are so much easier, is that a man has to make his own way- has to look after himself- and his family too, of course, when he has one .".
This just proves how independent he is and how he cares about no one else then himself and his family. Mr Birling's involvement in the suicide of Eva Smith is that .
in his factory, Eva used to work there. She was a very good and loyal worker. In fact, she was so good that she was about to be promoted to become a leading operator. But when the workers returned after the holiday in August, they started asking for a pay rise. They were averaging around twenty-two and six and the workers wanted around twenty-five shillings a week.