Context

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Priestley’s Play Warned Women

Question 2

PRIESTLEYS plays warned Women

Answer 2

• Priestley, a WW1 veteran and socialist advocate co-founded the common Wealth Party in 1945.
• Inspector acts as Priestley’s mouthpiece, mirroring Priestley’s role as a public intellectual and advocate for social reform.

Question 3

priestley’s PLAYS warned women

(politics)

Answer 3

1912 Britain had capitalist policies with a laissez-faire approach contrasting with the socialist shift following labour’s 1945 electoral victory, highlighting the play’s message about need of societal change

Question 4

priestley’s plays WARNED women

(WAR)

Answer 4

• set 2 years before WW1, and shown at end of WW2 - biggest loss of population through warfare britain had seen.
• 2 world wars act as a backdrop to the plays moral message about dangers of ignoring social responsibility.

Question 5

Priestley’s Plays warned WOMEN

Answer 5

• women lacked voting rights until gradual reforms in 1918 and 1928 empowered them politically. Play critiques patriarchal society of 1912