Context

• An inspector calls was set in 1912 and written in 1945
• Priestly wanted to attack capitalism and especially individualism
• Uses difference in time to highlight the progress made in Britain
• Women were seen as second class citizens
• 1911 there was a women's march campaign for women's rights which means that when the play was set change was starting to occur
• Sir Baldwin a prime during the world wars accused "hard-faced men" from profiting from the war