How Priestley explores class, power and privilege across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'her husband's social superior', 'Girls of that class', 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!', 'a hard-headed, practical man of business', 'lower costs and higher prices', 'But these girls aren't cheap labour'.
Context: the class system in 1912, and how it had changed by 1945.
Eduqas's essay on this text marks your response and your analysis of language, form and structure, not context: use context only where it helps an interpretation, and treat the printed extract as a starting point for an essay on the whole play.
