Inspector Goole

Inspector Goole

1. Reveals each member of the family to have a shameful secret

   • Wants them take responsibility
     • "Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges."
     • Arrival of real Inspector punishment for the adults not taking responsibility
     • "You've had children. You must have known what she was feeling."
   • Wants them to feel the guilt and change their ways
     • "But each of you helped to kill her."
   • "It's my duty to ask questions."

2. Personality

   • "Has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking."
   • "Massively taking charge."
     • Grows bigger in personality
   • "One person and one line of enquiry at a time."
     • Organised

3. J.B Priestley

   • Inspector is a conduit for J.B Priestley's views
     • Socialism - context
   • Identity
     • "Goole. G double O-L-E."
       • Ghost? Ghoul?
         • Conscience?
   • Socialist
     • "We'll have to share our guilt."
     • "We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other."

4. Warns them that they have to change their ways

   • "And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?
     • "Fire and blood and anguish."
     • WWI/WW2