What is the significance of the date "An Inspector Calls" is set (1912)?

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What is the significance of the date "An Inspector Calls" is set (1912)?

Accepted Answer

It is set before WWI and the Titanic disaster — the audience knows Mr Birling's confident predictions are wrong — Priestley set the play in 1912 but wrote it in 1945. The audience's hindsight creates dramatic irony — Birling's pronouncements about the Titanic and no war are proven disastrously wrong.

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It is set before WWI and the Titanic disaster — the audience knows Mr Birling's confident predictions are wrong

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It is modern day

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It is when the play was written

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It has no significance

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