Morality plays

• Characters personify moral qualities (such as charity or vice) or abstractions (as death or youth) and in which moral lessons are taught.
• A play that uses allegory to convey its message
• The Inspector is an embodiment of the collective conscience, representing society's values and morals.
• Social commentary - It highlights issues such as class inequality, social justice, and the consequences of greed and selfishness.
• Allegory - The use of symbolic characters and events to represent abstract ideas or concepts.