context

• priestly uses Birlings old fashion ways to create distrust between their idea's and way of life with the audience
• class


  different groups of people based on income
• capitalism


  wealth should be maintained by those who earned it
• socialism


  equal opportunity for all in wealth

  help others
• equality


  equal opportunities for everyone
• optimism


  hopeful and confident about future events
• war


  conflict between two or more groups
• trade unions


  a group of employees who joined together to maintain their conditions of employment
• strikes


  refusal to work organised by people as a form of protest
• suffragettes


  women protesting for their rights -link with equality
• greed


  wanting more then you need
• industrial revolution


  technological revolution of machines, mass migration of people
• industrialist


  a person involved with the ownership and management of industries
• charity


  helping people when it doesn't necessarily benefit you
• women's rights


  rights for women - equality
• social equality


  everyone being treated the same
• welfare state


  socialist party creating benefits
• NHS


  1948 - National Health Service - free healthcare