"An Inspector Calls" by John Boynton Priestley is an ingenious play, which illustrates a progression from ignorance to knowledge for not only the audience but the characters also. "An Inspector Calls" was written in 1945, but it is set in 1912, it shows at that time the society of England was split into huge social divisions and distinctions through the Birling family, the wealth of the Birling family in comparison to how poor Eva Smith was showed this. As the Inspector says "there are a lot of young women living in that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country." This shows the audience that Eva Smiths case was probably not rare, that there are many other young women in the same predicament she was in. But to Mr Birling she was merely a source of cheap labour, as the inspector says that if there were...