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'An Inspector Calls' An Inspector Calls is about a family which helps towards the death of a young girl, Eva Smith. The name Eva, which is similar to Eve- from Adam and Eve, plus the fact that Smith is the most common English surname, implies that Eva Smith represents every lower-class working girl. Dramatic irony is used in the play, for example when Mr. Birling says that there won't be a war- when there were actually two- Birling also says that the titanic is unsinkable. This suggests that he is arrogant, foolish and so over-confident that he thinks he's always right. J.B Priestley set this play in 1912. As Priestley was in the infantry, I imagine that he set the play in this period because he wanted to express himself with what he saw during the war he says what's wrong with capitalism, whilst reflecting on socialism. The speech that the...

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