explicit strong emotional response highlighting Eva's unjust treatment from the Birlings', making the audience feel hatred and repulsion towards them, followed by the Capitalist ideologies.
Priestley can offer an alternating pathway to socialism
eliminates disparity and oppression which Edwardian women would have wanted while living in a patriarchal society, emphasised through the suffragette movement where women wanted their individual independence.
beastly imagery as Eva is described as an "animal"
symbolises the dehumanising treatment endured by those at the bottom of the social hierarchy, as she represent the "millions and millions" of people like her.
asyndetic listing
conveys a sense of relentless repetition
vividly illustrates how Eva endured relentless exploitation, both due to her societal status and gender
repetitive cyclical battle of inequality and social injustice as a result of exploitation from Capitalism
cyclical structure of being exploited by each Birling and Gerald
Priestley's mouthpiece
vocalises the experiences of those who are absent of a voice as a result of oppression from the hierarchy, who only thrive from the presence of Capitalism
