John Boynton Priestley, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Bradford in September 1894, and after schooling he worked for a time in the local wool trade. There is a lot of mystery and tension in this play, as well as it being a scathing description of the crumbling of middle class values. Pristli je bio toliko popularan a njegov uticaj na savremeno pozorište (a tek televizijsku dramaturgiju) tako snažan da danas, paradoksalno, njegovi komadi deluju sasvim prevaziđeno jer smo svaki koncept i preokret već videli po sto puta. I'm going to try and make something coherent out of this rant, and I'm sorry if it's long-winded, but I guarantee you that it will be more interesting than the entirety of all three acts. The interesting thing, it occurred to me, is that they would never be able to do this if they knew which people were going to die.

consciously cultivated various poses - of grumbling patriot, cosmopolitan Yorkshireman, professional amateur, cultured Philistine [and] reactionary Radical. This book is still studied in schools I think and I'm not surprised as there's so much discussion to come from it. Birling, however, was adamant that the baby’s father must be made solely responsible, and succeeded to influence the society to turn her out without a penny. Priestley was a Socialist, and both his experience and his political principles fed very much into his writing.Die Handlung des Dramas nimmt unerwartete Wendungen, als sowohl dem Leser als auch den Buchcharakteren klar wird, dass etwas mit der Person des Inspektors nicht stimmt. It had a good plot, some potent messages and a nice little twist in the end designed to haunt the audience after the curtain descends. A girl has just died on the way there after drinking disinfectant, and a policeman is on the way to question them… and the curtain descends.

When Priestley dropped the line ‘in fire and blood and anguish’, you thought he was referring to Russian Revolution 2. This becomes evident when the audience learns that his mother, Lady Croft, disapproves of Sheila as a potential wife for her son. The story begins with the self-satisfied gathering of this greedy, insensitive and culpably unaware family being visited unexpectedly by a policeman. Das Besondere daran ist, dass es nicht als geklärt gilt, ob der Inspector den verschiedenen befragten Personen überhaupt dasselbe Foto gezeigt hat, oder ob es sich immer um Aufnahmen von verschiedenen (toten) Mädchen (und deren Schicksalen) gehandelt hat. Dennoch scheint mit seiner Person etwas nicht zu stimmen, was in der Mitte und vor allem am Ende des Buches deutlicher wird.The family is in a total shambles now: a son who has committed adultery and theft, a daughter whose engagement has ended the same day it started and a father in the hope of a knighthood, faced with public scandal and disgrace. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. His earliest books included The English Comic Characters (1925), The English Novel (1927), and English Humour (1928).

And then we have Eric, who started out as the only reasonably amusing character and turned out to be a rapist.Die Hintergrundgeschichten der einzelnen Familienmitglieder sind eigene kleine Geschichten, erzählt von den Verhörten wie in einer Rückschau auf einen entfernten schrecklichen Traum, dessen Konsequenzen sie sich erst jetzt bewusst werden, auch wegen des aktuellen Erkenntnisgewinnes, was die anderen verbrochen haben, egal ob es für ihre Handlungen juristische oder "nur" moralische Gesetze gibt. When Priestley left the army he studied at Cambridge University, where he completed a degree in Modern History and Political Science.