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Priestley, J.B.: An Inspector Cals
An Inspector Calls
The Characters:
Arthur Birling
Mr. Birling is a self-confident, calculating and
unscrupulous Buisnessman. The only thing he´s looking forward to are
his further buisness relations with Croft and he´s proud of getting a
Knighthood soon. sohe´s very ambitious. He doesn´t seem to
be happy that his daughter is going to marry.In the book he´s described as
easy-mannered man unlike his wife. In his buisness he´s
selfish and unscrupulous. He is a Capitalist and a
Conservative.
He tells Eric and Gerald, that a man must look after himself
and his own (p.17).
There you can see how unscrupulous, superficial,
narrow-minded and unworldly he is. Apparently he is not a very good
father because Eric says that he is not the kind of father a boy would come
to when he´s in trouble.(p.74)
He´s not thinking that he´s guilty. During the
whole interrogation he tries to convince the Inspector that he should stop
asking his family silly questions. But he does not succeed.
Sybil Birling
She´s a cold woman of her class who is full of
prejedices. She is very self-confident, self-possessed, arrogant and full
of haughtyness. But when it concerns her children she´s touchy.Her
world breaks together when she experiences that in Brumley are prostitutes,
Meggarty a womaniser and sot, the fiance of her daughter has a mistress. She
wants to be silent about the girl but at the and she is at the mercy of the
Inspector. She is pitiless and the typical hypocrite. She´s
cruel, vile, thinks that she´s better than others and
ruthless.
She´s not only hard-hearted she´s a heart
from stone and is even worse than her husband. Eva Smith was right in
what she did and she had claim of getting help but Mrs Birling used
her power in her comitee and refused the help only because she was to
distinguished tocome in touch with the silly troubles of girls of that
class.
She does not seem to confess anything and put the whole
guilt to the girl herself and to the father.
Sheila Birling
At the beginning as she turned out Eva of her job at
Milwards she´s reckless, spoiled, vile and hot-tempered. It is
really silly when somebody is so jealous of sb. who´s only more
beauty than oneself. She thinks she ´s the most beauty girl in the world.
She´s so vain and uses her power in a cruel
way.
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