Inspector context Flashcards
(19 cards)
When is the play set?
1912
When was the play written?
1945
What had just finished when the play was first performed?
World War 2
What is the name for the period before World War 2, when businesses and employment struggled?
The Great Depression
How had things changed for women between 1912 and 1945?
They could vote.
What kinds of things affect someone’s social class?
family, address, income, education, job, lifestyle choices, speech
Shakespeare’s times are known as Jocobean or Elizabethan. Dickens’ lived in Victorian times. What is the name for the times in which the play is set?
Edwardian
How might people have felt after World War 2?
Relieved and exhausted
When was World War 1 fought?
1914-1918
Where was World War 1 fought?
In trenches in Belgium and northern France
Who was affected most by World War 1 and what was the approach to fighting?
Soldiers were most affected, because the approach was for them to charge at the enemy, facing machine guns and terrible conditions in trenches.
Why were people in their homes also affected by World War 2?
Both sides bombed cities using planes.
Why would people have expected better working conditions and less respect for class differences after the two World Wars?
People had sacrificed and lost a lot during the wars, so they might have felt like the country owed them something.
What was the name of the famous ship that sank just after the play is set?
The Titanic
Who wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’?
J. B. Priestley
Which generation would have controlled the decision-making in 1912, older or younger?
older
Which class would have had more power in 1912, upper or lower?
upper
What will the opening sentence of your introduction be?
J. B. Priestley wrote his morality play, ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945 and set it in 1912.
What is a morality play?
A play which gives a message about the right and wrong way to behave.
