Priestley's motivation

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  • Priestley's motivation
    • The first world war
      • He signed up to fight in the trenches during the first world war, he then continued work within the army for 5 years and worked through the ranks
      • He survived the war relatively unscathed physically however his opinions on certain subjects changed due to his experiences
      • During his time in the army , he realised the implications of social inequalities
      • 'The British command specialised in throwing away men for nothing'
      • After his 5 years serving in the army , he attended the University of Cambridge to focus on his writing
      • He decided to travel England, during this experience he wrote about what he saw , mentioning specifically that the industrial areas were failing and that he believed that there 'ought to be no more of those lunches and dinners at which politicians and financial and industrial men congratulate each other'
    • A new democracy
      • 'new and vital democracy, an end to the waste and unfairness of social inequalities'
      • He believes that war forced society to come togetehr as a whole and tried to persuade people to maintain this mindset even when not in war
    • Bradford before the war
      • He was born in Bradford in 1894 when Bradford was considered a town , however when he was 3 it became a city due to industry.
      • Bradford's industries were focused around wool and the dying of it
      • When he wrote about his childhood in Bradford, he described it as a golden age of freedom, plenty, hospitality and generosity
      • Priestley was aware that many people in Bradford were living in poverty and he also believed that it was a common trait to be hypocritical, due to acting according to respectful morals on Sundays but abusing their power every other day
      • His political views were heavily influenced by his childhood as the area he grew up in had strong nonconformalist socialist views.
    • Power of broadcasting
      • During WW2 he became famous due to his BBC radio show called 'postscripts'
      • throughout 1940 he did weekly broadcasts to boost public morale
      • He influenced opinions in Britain by pleading with his viewers for a fairer society
      • He followed the ideas of Karl Marx
      • He believed that the working class should revolt in order to create a fair society

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