introduction to an inspector calls

• who wrote an inspector calls and when was it wrote and set?

  JB Priestley wrote it , it was wrote during WW2 in 1945 but the play is set in 1912
• what was the message priestly wanted to spread ?

  Social responsibility
• what is social responsibility ? 


  social responsibility is the idea that organisations have a responsibility to consider the interests of society
• where is the play set? and what’s is that place ?

  Brumley - a town in the midlands . brumley was described as an industrial city - cities like this would have had factories and thousands of terrace houses for the ppl who worked in the factories
• how did the upper/middle class live?


  Comfortably, many middle class men were wealthy and powerful due to bussiness
• people were expected to provide for themselves , so support was limited . this made it difficult for working class people to help themselves if they fell on hard times
• describe jb priestly life


  1984 :he was born in bradford

  1910: left school and worked as a clerk at a wool firm

  1914-1918:ww1 , priestly was wounded

  1919-1921: studies degree of history and politics at cambridge uni

  1922: worked as journalist in london

  1939:ww2

  1940:JB presented popular bbc radio programe but show was cancelled as government decided his views were to socialist

  1984:died
• working class families lived in small cramped homes with poor sanitation which led to disease outbreaks .
• what’s capitalism ?


  where trade and industry is mostly controlled by private owners and these individuals or companies keep the profits rather than distributing it evenly to all of the workers
• what’s socialism 


  socialism is where citezens have equal rights and same opportunities r available to everyone
• what’s collective responsibility 


  need to recognise the impact of our actions on others
• what’s communally 


  together with other ppl rather than by ourselves
• egalitarian 


  believe that all ppl r equal and deserve equal rights and opportunity