Inspector Goole

Inspector Goole in Priestleys play An Inspector Calls is arguably the most valuable character. An agent of change and a voice and a voice of personal and social conscience he delivers the main nitty-gritty of the play in his parting speech challenging the Birlings, and the audience, to Remember that there are millions and millions of people like Eva Smith, all linked in some way. Clearly at this stage his inquiry of the Birlings behaviour and the investigation of the suicide of Eva Smith proves he is the voice of morality.Goole states we dont live al unmatched and are responsible for separately other. This message is in direct contrast to the one delivered by Arthur Birling at the start of the play where he claims a man has to look after himself and his consume I believe it is no coincidence that Inspector Goole joins the play at this point and sets the tone for the conflict the two are going to have end-to-end the entirety of the play.The way that Inspector Goole conducts his investigation of sorts not only exposes Eva Smiths tragic chain of Events which leads to her eventual suicide but similarly enables the audience to understand each individual characters role in Evas death for Sheila getting her fired from her last steady job and Arthur Birling caring to much about let down costs and higher prices than his workers welfare.Goole is very clear when informing the Birlings and Gerald Croft of the way he like to go to Work He states he will use one line of inquiry at a time. He feels to do otherwise would result in a muddle. Certainly his way of investigation highlights his glacial opposite opinion to Arthur Birling whereas he believes in a butterfly effect where each character has individually contributed to the downward spiral of Eva Smiths life. Goole exposes the guilt of each character.The Birlings seem, at the beginning of the play to be a respectable up market family even Gerald Croft comments that they appear a nice considerably behaved family, but Goole shows this too all be a fake disguise when he reveals with his research methods that they are actually a family which thinks they are socially superior and one that is totally centred around power this statement is proved when Arthur Birling says ex Lord Mayor and I was on the bench and this so fought over power is abused many times in the book by the haracters for example when Gerald Croft uses his monetary advantage to abuse Eva for sex and when Sheila uses her fathers name to get Eva fired from her job at Millwoods. The Inspector quickly creates a conflict between the age generations with the elders staying stuck in their ways and not winning any kind of responsibility for their role in Eva Smiths death, whereas the younger generation know they have to share the guilt respectively as they are all to blame for Evas death.When Priestly wrote this play I believe he invented the character Inspector Goole to spread his message of responsibility through his dialogue this point is proved on many occasions when the inspector speaks to the Birlings about how they must take responsibility for their actions and share the guilt. He also has a massive speech just before he leaves the Birlings house to round off everything he has tried to get them to learn. Which even though they subsequent find out he was not actually an Inspector teaches the younger generation at lesson about responsibility and the effect their actions had on others.