An Inspector Calls

• Disillusioned (see the reality)

  Exploitative / exploitation

  Political diatribe (criticising politics)

  Remorseless / remorseful (no guilt / guilt)

  Emancipation (freedom)

  Collective social conscience (knowing right from wrong)

  Absolve (free from) guilt / responsibility

  Interconnectedness / interconnected

  Dehumanising

  Scrupulous / unscrupulous (moral / immoral)
• Priestley's Play Warns Characters

  Politics

  Priestly

  Women

  Class
• Social Class

  Capitalism Vs Socialism

  Responsibility

  Older Vs Younger Generation

  Guilt

  Gender
• Priestley aims to vilify capitalism through making immorality, irresponsibility and exploitation synonymous with the characters he constructs to hold these beliefs. He aims to scrutinise how detrimental this ideology is to society and how it causes society to regress rather than progress.
• Priestley shows that collective responsibility is a by-product of adopting socialist beliefs. He asserts that this collective responsibility serves as a solution to the division and segregation prevailent in society, ultimately creating inevitable social cohesion.
• He utilises his allegorical diatribe (teaching a message while criticising) to demonstrate the oppressive barriers of social class, arguing that upholding these divisions only exacerbates societal suffering and destruction.