Compare and Contrast the ways in which Priestley presents the attitudes of Birling and the Inspector throughout the play,

The play An Inspector C solitary(prenominal)s is set in 1912,Edwardian England only written and first performed in 1945. This is very significant because among these two dates humanity witnessed or encountered many times of heavy(p) suffering such as arena War 1, World War 2 and the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic, which gives the reader a sense of continuity, that events bequeath happen again and again unless muckle learn from previous mistakes. Social position was far more than important in 1912. Many men often from low-pitched origins who had been bold enough to invest in Industry make fortunes like birling. Wealth allowed people to climb up the complaisant and economic ladder which was as significant then as as ever before. birlings society exhibited enormous divisions in society. It is intellection that class divisions were never so acutely felt as by the Edwardians. 87% of the countries personal wealth could be set in motion in the pockets of a mere 5% of the population. The rights of workers such as Eva Smith were not taken seriously at all they were looked upon by the factory owners e.g.Birling as humans which were to be employ and abused for the employers benefit. The workers feelings were rarely taken into consideration.



Employers like Birling only worried about maximising profit this is confirmed when Birling says that his hopes for the future are to lower costs and higher prices which will only be to the benefit of people like Birling who shows a clear arrogance towards working class people. some(prenominal) factory owners, stock-still, such as Cadbury, genuinely cared about their workers, mental synthesis them houses in return for their hard work and loyalty. Sadly however Birling was typical of many Industrialists at the time. Britains policy of calming in the 1930s infuriated Priestley who believed the European dictators needed to...

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