How Priestley Presents His Ideas To An Audience In Act One Of An Inspector Calls

How Priestley Presents His Ideas To An Audience In Act One Of An Inspector Calls

Although J. B. Priestley was born many years after the ancient Greek

civilisation produced some of its great literature, he still decided

to use a similar way in which there greatest and therefore probably

the greatest philosophers conveyed there ideological views, opinions

and philosophies about society. He decided to utilise similar

techniques as Plato and his famous student Aristotle and write a

play-script about his views on society. He used his play script to

convey his combined philosophical and political views, which happened

to be a socialist view, of how Britain should be run. Socialism is a

scheme of social organisation where it is believed best that the

community itself controls places of production and distribution

instead of huge organisations, and the government. This is a basic

overview of the political theory; it is much like the Karl Marx

communism view, however it is less extreme. In fact, as I know it,

socialism came directly from Marxism, or sometimes commonly known as

Marxist-Leninist theory (because it was Karl Marx's' idea, that was

taken, and put into practice by Lenin). Socialism is the stage in

Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate stage between capitalism and

communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the

dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been achieved.

It is most likely that J.B. Priestley will have been a democratic

socialist, so he will have wanted slow but gradual changes in society

which will have been brought about through the government. However,

this sort of change will also have required the majority of the

population to agree as well as it would be they whom will be changing.

And this is probably why he wrote the play, to inform, and hopefully

change people's opinions about the way in which they treat each other.

Political propaganda, for all of the left-wing parities perhaps.

The play was written at a time of national equality because the war

was winding down and the population of Britain had pulled together as