Context — An Inspector Calls — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Context
Introduction
What you need to know
The contexts of An Inspector Calls: the play set in 1912 and first performed in 1945, class and capitalism before the First World War,
the Titanic and the coming wars, Priestley's socialism and the post-war welfare state, and the role of women.
The 1945 audience: the Labour victory that year and the welfare state that followed.
Priestley's interest in time (J. W. Dunne's theory), and the morality play tradition, for the ending.
For Edexcel's essay on this text, link each point to its context and the writer's purpose, which earn as many marks as knowledge of the text (16 of 40); language analysis earns no marks there.
