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It turns out he's arrived to question the family about a girl who just committed suicide and has reason to believe certain family members may know why she did so. Whilst seated during a family occasion, they are disrupted by the mysterious character of Inspector Goole, who enquires in-depth about the suicide of a working-class woman, originally named Eva Smith (but also known as Daisy Renton). Synopsis: The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". Blah blah blah, everyone is a caricature of themselves, it's obvious the fiance is cheating on Shelia from page 3, then after all this bumbling around with the characters saying nothing useful to the plot at all, the inspector arrives. Strong focus on the chronology of each text to help you really get to know your way round your set text.
And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Goole, however, goes about his business ruthlessly and ultimately succeeds in grinding them down, one by one.The dialogue is believable and fast moving and the play is structured so that each act grabs the audience's attention. Under interrogation, every member of the family turns out to have a shameful secret which links them with her death. There seems to be a heavy element of doom as she says, "Be careful you don't ask for any more, Gerald. Birling is her husband's social superior; he refers to himself as a "hard-headed practical man of business". And then we have Eric, who started out as the only reasonably amusing character and turned out to be a rapist.
His prolific output continued right up to his final years, and to the end he remained the great literary all-rounder. There was no NHS, hence healthcare was the luxury of the privileged classes (prior to the NHS child mortality rates were obscene). His output was vast, including 50 plays and adaptations, several novels, volumes of autobiographical works, plus numerous essays and miscellaneous papers.The celebration is interrupted by Inspector Goole who is conducting an investigation of the suicide of a working class woman. Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter's engagement. The audience is invited to wonder whether we have gone back in time, and whether it will be repeated, or would different events ensue. This book is sort of a detective story that has an underlying structure that parallels the concept of the butterfly effect, or the chaos theory. Just in case you couldn't tell, Priestly drops hints about it for the entire scene, including references to the titanic - which, incidentally, hasn't sunk yet - of course, Birling still knows enough detail about it to grace his family with, and a reference to the great war leaves a sort of horrendously botched attempt at exposition (trust me, I'm only just getting started).
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