An_Inspector_Calls

An Inspector Calls “An Inspector Calls” was written in 1945, in just one week, by Bradford born writer, John Boynton Priestley. In his life, he wrote over one hundred novels, plays and essays. In July 1941 Priestley and other members of a committee established the socialist common wealth party. He was very interested and involved with politics but had a large amount of trouble getting along with the policies of any one party. He also made an unsuccessful attempt to stand as independent candidate for parliament in 1944. Priestley travelled through the extremely poor parts of Britain, which gave the inspirations for his novels and plays. His inspirations helped him think through his political ideas and change them. Most of his plays were about middle class people because the audiences who watched and read them were generally middle class people so they could relate to the characters easily. He wanted all his characters to be as real as possible so he gave them a social background that would the recognised. He had the great gift of being able to write quickly and never having to correct his first drafts. All his writings contained important elements of time, which suggests that there are moments priestley, inspector, calls, workers, plays, people, one, about, towards, through, programme, play, himself, after, wrote, written, week, wanted, times, time, shows, should, priestley’s, poor, political, party, novels, mr, middle, made, life, lead, inspirations, independent, important, generally