In Bellamy’s opinion, the agricultural economy and the private capital was inefficient and only benefitted the wealthy, while the working class continued to suffer. The lower class people of the nation had to work unreasonable conditions to escape, what seemed to be, the inevitable fate of poverty. Many workers protested their jobs in hopes of change, which ultimately lead to furthering their poverty because the upper class had no sympathy for the poor, even when they tried to stand up for themselves. Bellamy clearly shows his thoughts of hopelessness in his community that he lived in by the following passage: “…it was merely a question of thickness of their skulls when they would discover the fact and make up their minds to endure what they cannot cure” (12). Bellamy saw the select few who were wealthy as abusers of their power and money.
An Inspector Calls can be seen as a morality play, as it teaches a lesson, as well as conveying morality through Priestley's eyes, with the main aim being to show that capitalism has an effect on all members of society, in very different ways. He attempts to show that most of the public suffer due to the lack of moral fibre, which makes the audience sympathise with the plight of the lower-class. It is key that the play is set in 1912, as it was a difficult time. There were food shortages, strikes and continuous political tension. The audience are also aware that during this time, the world was on the verge of war.
Priestley’s play “An Inspector Calls” is centred on the middle class and capitalist, Birling Family. The main theme of the play is responsibility and that everybody should take responsibility for their actions. Priestley uses the characters in the play to teach the audience how we should behave and act towards other people. He also uses them to show the different ways of life, Mr Birling is pure Capitalism and the Inspector is pure Socialism. Mr Birling is a vital part in how Priestly puts his message across to the nation.
As a result, it is possible to interpret the industrialization like another form of slavery because it is a nuisance to the worker’s freedom. Indeed, it is a fact; factories owner have a total control on the workers. They take decision without any consent, and they only seek their profits. In fact, Sam tells us about the factories owners’ behavior by denouncing the changes in the lunch hours. (Patch, 67) It is true that the workers are proud of their skills especially the spinners like in Sam Patch, but sometimes fighting back is an obligation.
Subculture theories is a theory where individuals have the same interests, problems and concerns which will form a subculture. Deviance in terms of the subculture of a social group arguing that certain groups develop norms and values which are to some extent different from those held by other members of society. There are a number of sociological theories. Functionalist see shared norms and values as the basis of social order and social solidarity. they consider crime and deviance, ahead of a certain level to be dysfunctional to society, as it is seen as threat to social order.
Each male character embodies a different male in society and each type of male Walker wants to portray to the reader. Celie’s Father Alphonso invokes no sympathy in the reader. The first phrase introduces us to him, ‘You better not never tell nobody but God, it’d kill your mammy’. This is the first male image that Walker wants the reader to be aware of which immediately forms a negative male image. Pa is the cruel, violent, uncaring, sexually driven male that appears to be the normal man in this society.
Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, shows the difference between social classes through the use of geography. Full of hopelessness and dull lives, the valley of ashes defines the wasteland that they live in and the way their lives have become a waste of time in the end, since they will never achieve anything because of the corruption of money. Unfashionable and vulgar, the West Egg represents the way of life for new money. They overdo the attempt to imitate others and cause people to know they fake their lives. In contrast to the West Egg, the people who live in the East Egg have high social class, good taste in everything, but have many flaws.
Priestley was concerned with the inequality of life – those who had much abusing those who were in their power. How far does the action of this play demonstrate his ideas? In ‘An Inspector Calls’ Sybil Birling is often seen abusing the power she has, especially when she refuses to help Eva Smith by giving her support from her organisation. “(Stung) I didn’t like her manner” shows the audience that Sybil is shocked by the manner of someone who is in a lower class than her. It gives us the impression that Sybil believes people in lower classes than her should talk to her with a better manner than someone of a higher class as Sybil sees herself as more respected than someone of a lower class.
The poor get noticed for their crimes because their region is specific and a scarcity of resources which causes them to be less smart in hiding their crimes unlike the rich. Moreover, the crimes committed by the rich are too abstract to be taken into account, in that, they offer psychological torture to the poor in the form of abuse or insult to which they physically react and are punished. “The Outsiders” and “Saints and Roughnecks” form part of the vast literature that has
In An Inspector Calls, the central theme is responsibility. Priestley is interested in our personal responsibility for our own actions and our collective responsibility to society. The play explores the effect of class, age and sex on people's attitudes to responsibility, and shows how prejudice can prevent people from acting responsibly. Priestley believed in the idea of the Welfare state, where everyone was supported by each other. He was a supporter of socialism - his play promotes social responsibility and criticises the problems caused by the class divide.