context points

Question 1

priestly was a socialist

Answer 1

wrote the play to criticise the capitalist Edwardian system at the time.

Question 2

Lack of women rights

Answer 2

Goes across both boundaries as both upper and working class women had the same amount of rights.
They needed the protection of marriage to guarantee stability for them.
Did not get equal pay as they got voting rights in 1918 again priestly critisizing.

Question 3

Edwardian England had a big divide in class

Answer 3

Priestly wants to present that a few upper class had vast power to exploit the working class.

Question 4

idea of undeserving poor

Answer 4

upper class believed that poor didn’t deserve aid and charity as they were immoral to put them in poverty which is shown with Mrs birling.

Question 5

WW1

Answer 5

Trying to highlight that Edwardian had some instability that led to WW1