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John Boynton Priestley was a socialist play write who wrote "An Inspector Calls", a thought-provoking murder mystery in 1945. "One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions of Eva and John Smiths still left with us". Priestley's strong views on "acting like a community" were cleverly put into the character of the inspector and the opposite was given to the more Laissez Faire opinionated characters such as Mr and Mrs Birling. The play was such a success because Priestley not only entertained his audience, but educated them as well. In this essay I will show how he used different techniques and involved different issues when writing the play. One of Priestley's themes was based around generations, and the idea that "hope is with the young". He gave this message by conveying the younger generation as the potential heroes, the older generation as the dismissive, with a "live what you have" attitude...

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