Zusammenfassung der Ressource
An Inspector Calls - Characters
- Sybil Birling
- Obsessed with etiquette
- Not a good mother figure
- incapable of sympathy
or remorse
- refuses to learn from
the inspetor
- Turned down Eva's last plea for help
- Arthur Birling
- head of the family
- obsessed with social status
- business is important, people
are just 'cheap labour'
- dislikes the inspector
challenging his authority
- Set in his ways and
refuses to change
- Fired Eva Smith from his company
- Gerald Croft
- takes no responsibility
for his actions
- shows us no one is immune
to being closed minded
- had a relationship with 'Daisy
Renton '
- Eric Birling
- Is a drunk
- Honourable intentions but
questionable actions
- steals money from Arthur to
give to Eva / Daisy
- Gets Eva/ Daisy pregnant
- Sheila Birling
- most moral character in the play
- Ashamed with her parents by the end
- Sees the error of her ways
- Had Eva fired from her last job
- Inspector Goole
- Voice of the working class
- seems supernatural
- Goole = ghoul ?
- unintimidated and unconvential
- image of God / moral conscious
- Eva Smith / Daisy Renton
- to be admired
- described as a good worker
- to be sympathised with
- her parents are dead
- voiceless & defenceless