Priestley’s best known play An Inspector Calls (1934) describes a comfortable night in the spring of 1912 when the Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, the son of a knighted industrialist. There in knock on the door and an inspector calls. He tells the group that there has recently been a suicide by a girl named Eva Smith and how they all owe collective responsibility for her death. Eva Smith eventually becomes a representative of all oppressed working women of the period for whose welfare the responsibility lies with all of us. The present critical study explores and examines the text in view of Priestley’s socialist views. A number of critical problems have also been answered to meet the examination requirements of our students. Shakti Batra, Formerly Vice-Principal of Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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