IPC - key themes

Key themes

An equitable society

• Priestly presents us with a sincerely felt and powerfully expressed social message
• We are shown the comfortable home and rich way of life of the Birling family
• By contrast we have the accounts of the desperate attempts of workers to increase their poor wages and the drab and sordid life that is the girl is forced to live as a result of the actions of the Birling’s

• The inspector champions the cause of the poor, and tries to get the…