An Inspector Calls Essay Example For Students

An Inspector Calls Essay Both Mr Birling From An Inspector Calls And Ebeneezer Scrooge From Christmas Carol Are Visited By Outsiders. Compare And Contrast The Two Characters And How They Are Influenced By The Outsiders.  An Inspector Calls is a play written by J.B Preistly in year 1908. An Inspector Calls and Christmas Carol have a main theme to them, which is about holism and individualism but we see how two similar characters dealing with these issues. The author is showing how wealthy rich business owners deal with social considerations and responsibility also. Charles Dickens writes the Christmas Carol. The play concentrates on responsibility and social considerations and also four outsiders visit the character in Christmas Carol. Mr Birling is the one of the main characters out of six in An Inspector Calls. Mr Birling is a wealthy business owner who we see fails to deal with responsibility and social considerations. In Christmas Carol Ebeneezer Scrooge is main character, he also owns a business. Scrooge also shows how he succeeds to deal with responsibility and social considerations. An outsider called Inspector Goole visits Mr Birling. Scrooge is visited by four outsiders they are; his late business partner and best friend Jacob Marley and the ghosts of past, present and future. Outsiders means ghost or sprit all, the outsiders that visit Mr Birling and Scrooge are sprits or ghosts. Inspector Gooles name is a pun on ghoul meaning sprit or ghost. The outsiders visit these characters due to lack of responsibility they show as businessmen and how they treat their employees. Also what their social considerations however these characters are individualist they think for them self not for anyone else. The Outsiders visit Mr Birling and Scrooge to preach holism. Conversely Mr Birling and Scrooge are similar, they both own business and their responsibility, which is to care for his employee not be individualist and to be holist which to think for everyone. But Mr Birling and Scrooge do not take care of their employees, as they are individualists. Mr Birling sacked his employee Eva Smith because she wanted only a couple of more shillings nothing more. Mr Birling sad that if he gave Eva Smith the increase in wages. Mr Birling considers his business first then his employees and him self-first as well. Mr Birling is greedy:  Well, its my duty to keep labour costs down, and if Id agreed to this demand fro a new rate wed have added about twelve per cent to out labour costs. This quote shows he is bothered about his labour costs, he does not want high labour cost then he will not make any profits for himself and also he self important he does not care if his employees cannot cope with their wages he does not show responsibility for his workers.  Scrooge does not let his clerk Bob Cratchet have Christmas off he says it is a way off picking a poor persons pocket on Christmas day, but in the end he lets him have Christams off but he can not have following day off:   A poor excuse picking a mans pocket every twenty-fifth of December. However Scrooge is moaning to Bob that he pays him for nothing because he doesnt do any work:   You dont think me ill-used when I pay a days wages for no work.  Both of the characters are tight fisted, they are very selfish because they do not let their workers have a pay increase. Both characters do not let their workers wages go up. Mr Birling sacked five ringleaders because of this. One of those ringleaders was Eva Smith, this was one of the first chain of events, which lead to her death. Mr Birling is not responsible because he does not care for his workers or their lives. All he wants is his knighthood: Shakespeare's Presentation of Isabella in Act 5 of the Play EssayImplying that he only enjoys them without the company of the misses and after meals. As we carry on, we see how Mr Birling stereotypes women and he says that there all the same as when they are out the room Eric says he left them in the drawing-room talking about cloths which he then carries on to say there all made over cloths and doesnt understand it, Mr Birling telling him that he must understand that women cloths are basically all they have to enjoy as there husbands are always working. Birling does not seem to like women very much, specially lower class women, as he describes Eva Smith wretched girls this showing that the men are not really meant to care even though the woman has just died because as long as he had no undertake in it, everything all right. When Gerald has admitted to having had an affair we see how Birling implies its a common thing Now, Sheila, Im not defending him. But you must understand that a lot of men- this tells us that the respect he has for women is not very high because if he can say that affairs are common within a man marriage, how must it be for the women. That quote also implies that he may have also had an affair in the past. Towards the end we see that instead of the men and women going against each other its the other way round, except its the older generation against the young, which is Mr Birling Mrs Birling, and Sheila and Eric teaming up.  The play finishes with the whole thing about the inspector being a hoax and then it really happens in reality, as if the past was being replayed. Throughout the play we mostly see the men doing the bad thing and the women covering up for them.