aic context

• class

  the hierarchical system was very dominant in the edwardian society

  
  

  'The great depression' resulted in economic depression and mass unemployment throughout the world-working class demanded social change.

  Priestley uses the Birlings and Gerald Croft as representations of the upper classes, and Eva as a representation of the working class to highlight the immense differences between them and the unfairness of the system.

  
  

  The play is set two years before World War I and was written when World War II ended:By 1945, two world wars had dramatically altered views about class