| The first entrance of the play is when the Inspector visits the Birling household when they are in the middle of a big meal and celebration party. They hear the doorbell ring and they all drop deadly silent as they all are not quite sure who should be calling upon them at that time as all their close friends are dining with them at that moment. When Edna first announces the Inspectors presence at the door Mr Birling is loud and appears to the reader to be pronouncing everything he says in an angry and annoyed sounding tone. He says "An Inspector, what kind of an Inspector", Mr Birling sounds at that moment as if he may be speaking down to the Inspector because of the way he questions what kind of an Inspector he is, and this gives the impression that he thinks of it as being an absolutely ridiculous thing to happen to someone as important as him in his mind. He is also giving the impression that he isnt very happy that someone has rudely interupted him when he was in full flow talking about how men have to look after themselves these days.As Mr Birling says these words the Inspector rings the bell and stops him. Later on in the play you are lead to believe that the Inspector holds completely opposite views to those of Mr Birling and this could be why J.B.Priestly chooses to place the Inspectors first entrance in this specific place.Priestly may have the opposite view of Mr Birlings so he passes on the views to the Inspector which allows Priestly to get his personal views into the play. The Inspector enters from the 'up stage' position and when he comes in, even though he is not neccesarily the biggest man he gives the impression that he is important and purposefulness. He looks at Mr Birling seriously and looks hard at him before then addressing him. Eric suddenly seems stunned and taken back when he hears about the incident. Gerald then gets suspicious that he couldn't see the picture that the Inspector showed Mr Birling and then Eric finally catches on to what Gerald is saying and he also asks the Inspector and wonders why he cant see it but they soon forget about the whole incident or just let it pass by without making too much of a scene about it. Soon after that Gerald exits the room and leaves the Inspector to get on with his interigation of the party. The second Entrance I have chosen is the entrance when Eric arrives back to the Birlings house. Eric enters the house from the front door and everyone waits inquisitively for him to enter the room. When Eric enters he is standing up in front of people completely on his own with all the tension that the Inspector has built up. It gave me the impression that J.B.Priestly tryed to make it feel as if Eric was on trial in court because he was standing up confronting people who mostly knew what sin he had commited and where just about to start and question and choose his fait. At this point almost everyone in the room had realised that it was Eric that they had just heard Mrs Birling giving her views on how whoever had done such a thing should be publicly humiliated and should take responsibility for their actions. Then it suddenly hits the last person to realise which is Mrs Birling that the person was Eric. The scene then ends there and the curtain goes down. When the new scene starts Mrs Birling sounds very distressed and is trying to cover up for Eric. She is doing this for herself as much as him because otherwise she has just dictated her own sons fait. She also cant believe that her son that was bought up in a reasonably rich family has done such a thing. The third Exit I am going to comment about is the Inspector exiting the Birling household. The Inspector just before he leaves the household gets the family to start piecing together who is to blame and how much blame they can hold each for the incident that at the infirmary. The Inspector who takes control and trys to restore order a lot during the play takes control and shares his final views and tells them who he thinks bears the most blame for the murder, He is swift and then he says good night and then he is gone. This fast delivery of his speech before exiting probably left left them shocked, mainly because a complete stranger who may not even be who he says he is has walked into their house and totally opened up all of their lives in front of each other in a couple of hours.And they are probably very happy to have the Inspector blame them all for her death as it shifts some of the guilt that they had been feeling individually when the Inspector went round the room and dished out the evidence in the first place. Sheila unlike everyone else in the house trys to take as much positive out of the nights proceedings as she trys to explain that they have all learnt alot from the night and she explains how they should try and think more carefully about their actions in the future and the consequences that may occur from their rash decision making. This could be another one of Priestleys inputs into the play and may be the reasoning he had behind the play to show a very important point that he believes people should live with in mind all the time. |