An Ins Calls

An Inspector Calls
Act 3 is the act where all the characters express their views of their responsibility for the death of Eva Smith, which contains valuable information about their willingness to change and share their guilt. From this act I will explore the thoughts and feelings of the Birlings and Gerald to understand whether they should change and share their guilt; and the obstacles which prevents them from doing so.

This play was set in 1912; when the gap between the poor and the rich was getting bigger and bigger. The poor people were urging the government to set up a welfare state and there were fears of a revolution like the one in Russia. The Birlings is the one of the many rich families who still thinks ‘there will be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere”. Their treatment towards Eva Smith describes how the upper-class was treating the lower-class at that time.

By the time when the play was written (1944-5), Britain had already experienced the First a...