It's shocking that this book is largely ignored by Americans (witness the fact that only a few more than 50 people have reviewed it here on "goodreads"). As the play goes on Priestley brilliantly puts his audience into two positions; in one we watch the horrible family weave rope which, as the play goes on, we realize is going to hang them out to dry and we rejoice in their discomfiture but at the same time he turns the spotlight on the reader/listener/observer. The Birlings (the industrialist Arthur Birling, his wife Sybil, daughter Sheila and son Eric) are having a quiet little dinner at their home to celebrate Sheila’s engagement to Gerald Croft, son of Sir George and Lady Croft. I love books and movies set in confined space and where there is a lot of dialogue between characters.

Der Autor verwendet einen sehr sachlichen Stil, Vulgärsprache kommt trotzt der Dauer-Wörtlichen Rede kaum vor. Why is no-one concerned at the end by the strange and completely unexplained inspector's appearance in the first place? Das Verachten sozialer Strukturen und das Denken des "Every man for himself", sowie die Selbstverständlichkeit von quasi gottgegebenen Privilegien ist in der Zeit des Frühkapitalismus ein Problem sondergleichen gewesen. It all matters… The wealthy Birling family are sitting down at dinner when a policeman knocks at the door.It should not be overlooked that Priestley was an outstanding essayist, and many of his short pieces best capture his passions and his great talent and his mastery of the English language. This is one of the most satisfyingly riveting plays i have ever read, seen in the theatre (three times), watched in film (Alastair Sims, goodness only knows how many times) listened to on the radio and now I have an audiobook version. While not as fanciful or elaborate as some of the greatest works by masters such as Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde in his style Priestly manages to pull off what he must. Inspektor Gul (dobro, pre sedamdesetak godina ovo ime nije bilo toliko prozirno ni, da se ne lažemo, smešno) primorava okupljene bogataše da se suoče sa vlastitim udelom krivice u samoubistvu nesrećne devojke. It also tends to lessen the dramatic effect of the other police inspector who mysteriously rings the doorbell at the end of the play.

When Priestley dropped the line ‘in fire and blood and anguish’, you thought he was referring to Russian Revolution 2. MBE Books supplies all books with free plastic jackets that arrive fitted to the books and we offer excellent discounts that cannot be beaten. But the themes of hubris, responsibility and the place of the individual within society are critical to modern Americans, just as they were to postwar Brits, just as they were to the aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th century. In the midst of a family dinner, the Birling family’s evening is interrupted by the enigmatic Inspector Goole, who arrives with unsettling news about a young woman’s tragic suicide.I didnt actually mind this though because I feel like the characters, the storyline, and the main message was there. The Inspector at one point comments that he finds the younger generation more impressionable, more idealistic. This book is still studied in schools I think and I'm not surprised as there's so much discussion to come from it.

We all disagree with their stance on life (which is never even vaguely concealed at all), so unless they were going to do something dramatic, why have the play take place at all? Oh when the story unravels and we see how each member of the family have secrets about this girl to spill, then this is like watching lambs to the slaughter. If you value good characters, a well developed plot and some semblance of closure or well timed endings to your literature, just avoid this play. It has been suggested that the knowledge the Inspector has of the "fire and blood and anguish," is itself precognition; a foreshadowing of the First and Second World Wars. 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 haven't seen modelling for what would happen if SA used WA's more conservative strategy, but clearly the prediction is that you'd have fewer deaths. Starting on 5th June 1940, Priestley built up such a following that after a few months it was estimated that around 40 per cent of the adult population in Britain was listening to the programme. Then Goole drops his final bomb: the culprit is none other than Eric, her son, an accusation which the young man accepts. je klasičan moralitet u savremenom (tada) ruhu: pojava stranca obične pojave ali očigledno natprirodnog karaktera unosi nemir u malo porodično okupljanje i primorava sve njegove učesnike da se suoče sa svojim gresima i svojom pravom prirodom. At first the family denies knowing the woman, but as the story unravels we realize that is not the case.