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Tom Fenton 4B ‘How Priestley sets the Atmosphere in the
Opening Scenes of the play ‘An Inspector Calls’


In his play 'An Inspector Calls', Priestly sets the scene for what is going to happen in the rest of the play in the opening of the Priestly play. He achieves this using stage directions and the way that the characters speak to each other.

In the very beginning of the book, Priestly tells us a lot about the characters and their backgrounds using stage directions: ‘and her husbands social superior’’. From this we can tell that Mrs Birling is Mr. Birling’s social superior. It is obvious from the play that Mr. Birling feels uneasy about this. He obviously wants a title for himself ...

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