An Inspector Calls

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Priestley's morality play about social responsibility. Meet the writer, understand the message, teach it to Ember, then face the Inspector's dilemma yourself.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the 1912/1945 double time-frame and why it matters
• Explain social responsibility as the play's central idea
• Connect Priestley's own life to the play's politics

The minds who lived it

• J. B. Priestley — Author of An Inspector Calls

Teach it to Ember

On Incandio you prove understanding by teaching: explain each idea to Ember, the AI apprentice, until it truly understands.

• Social Responsibility in An Inspector Calls — How does Priestley present the idea of social responsibility?

Apply it

• The Inspector's Warning — A young woman is dead, and an Inspector says your family helped kill her. Do you accept your part, or explain it away?

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