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‘AN INSPECTOR CALLS’- REVISION PACK
CONTEXT To understand the context of the play, it's helpful to know a little about J B Priestley's life and his political views during the early 20th century - a time of great global change. He wrote An Inspector Calls after the Second World War and like much of his work contains controversial, politically charged messages. Keen to pioneer a new 'morality' in politics, Priestley’s chief concerns involved social inequality in Britain and the need for nuclear disarmament. The characters we see as the curtain rises are not the same as those at the plays conclusion. The events of the evening change everyone, as well as their Play written in 1945 Play set in 1912 The First World War would start in two years. Birling's optimistic view that there would not be a war is completely wrong. The Second World War ended on 8 May 1945. People were recovering from nearly six years of warfare, danger and uncertainty.
There were strong Class distinctions had been distinctions between greatly reduced as a result the upper and lower of two world wars. classes.
Women were subservient to men. All a well off women could do was get married; a poor woman was seen as cheap labour. The ruling classes saw no need to change the status quo.
As a result of the wars, women had earned a more valued place in society.
There was a great desire for social change. Immediately after The Second World War, Clement Attlee's Labour Party won a landslide victory over Winston Churchill and the Conservatives.
expectations of the future. Inspector Goole is instrumental in disturbing the harmony; a purposeful, mysterious character who forces the characters to confront each other's social responsibility, snobbery and guilt. But is the inspector as genuine as he seems? All these changes take place because of the visit of Inspector Goole. But who is Inspector Goole? And who is the girl whose suicide he is apparently investigating?
Priestley deliberately set his
CONTEXT To understand the context of the play, it's helpful to know a little about J B Priestley's life and his political views during the early 20th century - a time of great global change. He wrote An Inspector Calls after the Second World War and like much of his work contains controversial, politically charged messages. Keen to pioneer a new 'morality' in politics, Priestley’s chief concerns involved social inequality in Britain and the need for nuclear disarmament. The characters we see as the curtain rises are not the same as those at the plays conclusion. The events of the evening change everyone, as well as their Play written in 1945 Play set in 1912 The First World War would start in two years. Birling's optimistic view that there would not be a war is completely wrong. The Second World War ended on 8 May 1945. People were recovering from nearly six years of warfare, danger and uncertainty.
There were strong Class distinctions had been distinctions between greatly reduced as a result the upper and lower of two world wars. classes.
Women were subservient to men. All a well off women could do was get married; a poor woman was seen as cheap labour. The ruling classes saw no need to change the status quo.
As a result of the wars, women had earned a more valued place in society.
There was a great desire for social change. Immediately after The Second World War, Clement Attlee's Labour Party won a landslide victory over Winston Churchill and the Conservatives.
expectations of the future. Inspector Goole is instrumental in disturbing the harmony; a purposeful, mysterious character who forces the characters to confront each other's social responsibility, snobbery and guilt. But is the inspector as genuine as he seems? All these changes take place because of the visit of Inspector Goole. But who is Inspector Goole? And who is the girl whose suicide he is apparently investigating?
Priestley deliberately set his