An Inspector Calls

• priestley pov

  
  

  promote a socialist agenda and criticise capitalist society/ruling classes

  change of perspective sheila and Eric change with the help of the inspector

  Eva-representing the working class who is exploited by the birlings and Gerald then ends her life symbol of the working class being oppressed by the upper class/their lives are meaningless
• society


  society of 1945 but sets it in 1912

  because he wants to show how society has changed but still similar and needs to change therefore collect a socialist government
• patriarchy


  sacking of Eva/sexual exploitation from Eric and gerald

  sheila- Eva is more attractive, her jealousy is created by the rules of patriarchal society that doesn't allow her to develop

  mrs billing has no root of authority of power she only upper class title denies her charity to Eva because she's prejudiced against 'girls of that class' underpinned by patriarchal control-only way she can has influence she can hold on to her title allows her to influence as a woman in this society