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Exploring and exploding the end of An Inspector Calls.
The play has, functionally, two endings:
- the Inspector's "fire and blood and anguish" speech
- the phone call reporting a suicide at the very end
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The play has, functionally, two endings:
- the Inspector's "fire and blood and anguish" speech
- the phone call reporting a suicide at the very end
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I think of AIC as an inversion of A Christmas Carol -- a supernatural visitation that shows the wealthy what will happen if they don't change their ways. But whereas Scrooge learns his lessons and forestalls tragedy, the Birlings don't.
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So the "real" suicide at the end is a fulfilment of the prophecy offered by the Inspector. The Birlings had a chance to change, refused, and now it's all coming true.
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