"An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestley is full of lies and deceit. Write fully about the way Priestley exposes weakness and wickedness, not only in the characters on stage, but also in society.

J.B. Priestley sets the play in a lavish and happy environment. Without Priestley even telling the audience that the play is set pre war it is obvious because of all the available luxuries and fineries such as 'champagne glasses' and 'dessert plates'. The war caused great shortages in goods and food, which led to rationing. No one in 1945 (when the play was written) would have been able to create a luxuriant celebratory dinner. This …

…be taught it in fire and/blood and anguish.' This final phrase was a warning to the characters about the First World War. A War where countries of autocracy, fought countries of socialism. The war itself was a fight for freedom, a fight for equality, against dictatorship. A fight that was soon to be repeated, between the poor and the rich, the women and the men, in order to find equality in British society.