inspector calls context

Question 1

Mr B - arrogant

Answer 1

titanic sunk in 1912
‘unsinkable absolutely unsinkable’

Question 2

eva - no money had to turn to mrs B - mr B had power as an employer

Answer 2

no unemployment benefits in 1912
no welfare state / help for lower classes
1912 coal miner strikes secured minimum wage

Question 3

class importance

Answer 3

position in society was important to edwardians
JB Priestley turned down a knighthood - didnt care about class
written after war - set before (after war classes banded together)

Question 4

Mr B / eva - why striking/ poor conditions

Answer 4

1912 coal miner strikes secured minimum wage
no welfare state / help for lower classes

Question 5

gender roles / role of women

Answer 5

unmarried women were vulnerable
family dynamics were very patriarchal
suffragettes were protesting for the votes
during war women left in charge when men went to fight

Question 6

younger generation

Answer 6

priestley went to uni in 1912

Question 7

socialism

Answer 7

founded a socialist party
father was a socialist
did a socialist broadcast during war
performed in 1945 when socialist gov elected