Who is to blame for the death of eva smith?(An inspector calls)

Over the last term we have been studying the play ‘an inspector calls’ by J.B Priestly. It is an intriguing tale of how the Birling family, an upper class family who live in the north of England in an imaginary town called Brumley, lead a young working class girl called Eva Smith to commit suicide.
In act three the inspector tells the birling family:

‘’The girl killed herself-and died a horrible death, but each one of you had a part to play helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.’’




Arthur Burling is the main man in the Burling family, and seems to control it, i.e. whatever he says - goes! The play is set in an imaginary town called Brumley, somewhere in the North of England. Mr. Burling has a selfish attitude towards life, and also an attitude to only care for himself and family, and basically forget everybody else, in fact, this is exactly what he tells a speech on at the celebration of Sheila’s and Gerald’s engagement, “... a man ...