context

Question 1

gender context

Answer 1

Priestly wrote the play in 1946 when women had gained many more rights than they had when the play was set in 1912. The audience would therefore be quite shocked seeing how women were treated

Question 2

Capitalism vs Socialism

Answer 2

priestly himself was a socialist but britain is, and still is, a capitalist country
the inspector acts as the mouthpiece of priestly