The ideas of P.D. It was a time of great change in Britain and many writers were concerned with the welfare of the poor. Perfect for high attaining pupils at gcse this lesson considers how priestley was influenced by various theories of time when writing an inspector calls. The British author J. fluenced by J.W. I want to state the theory in An Experiment with Time as clearly as I can in my own way; then to consider its application to Precognition; and then to consider whether there are any other grounds for accepting it beside its capacity to account for the possibility of Precognition. An Inspector Calls explicitly deals with the nature of time in its final twist: has the play, we might wonder, simply gone back in time? An inspector calls theories. Many of his works have a political aspect. An Inspector Calls explicitly deals with the nature of time in its final twist: has the play, we might wonder, simply gone back in time? He famously was interested in Dunnes theory of time, which argued that the past was still present, and that time was not linear as many traditional accounts suggest. The play an Inspector Calls could also be considered a morality play rather than anything else for the reason that this play, does not only centre itself about the death of a helpless woman, but it is too about the circumstances and the way that all of the people concerned acted immorally in the treatment of the girl according to their own morals and how they have been Ouspensky and J.W. Although it was his precognitive experiences that motivated Dunne to rethink the nature of time, he maintains that his theory is not dependent on empirical evidence of that B. Priestley wrote a number of dramas during the 1930s and 40s, which have come to be known as his Time Plays. At that time there was no assistance for people who could not afford to look after themselves. He famously was interested in Dunnes theory of time, which argued that the past was still present, and that time was not linear as many traditional accounts suggest. Priestley wanted to address this issue. In addition to detailing his experiments with precognition, J. W. Dunnes book An Experiment with Time proposes a theory of time which he calls Serialism to account for his observations. DUNNE'S THEORY OF TIME in a n-fold a "(2,n)-fold." In general, m independent simultaneous equations would leave n - m degrees of freedom in a n-fold, and so would determine a set of points in the n-fold which we will call a "(n -- m, n)-fold." They are so called because each constructs its plot around a particular concept of time.In the plays, various theories of time become a central theatrical device of the play, the characters' lives being affected by how they react to the Dunne's theory of time, which plays a part in the plots of Dangerous Corner and TIme and the Conwcrys (1937). An Inspector Calls was first performed in the UK just after the end of World War Two, in 1946. After some research it became known to me that Priestly was deeply fascinated and interested in Dunnes theory of time, this theory suggests the idea that the past was still present, and that time was not linear as many traditional accounts suggest. This is closely related to the Dunnes Theory, which states that you can look back into the past to see how your actions lead to a situation and you can look into the future to see how this will affect people in times to come. Dunnes theory also talks about the ability to look back and forward in time and see what has happened, this is an immediate reference to the inspector as he is able to see what the Birlings and Gerald Croft has done to Eva even before the death has taken place.