An Inspector Calls

1) What were the major events throughout 1910 - 1920? 

First Auto Electric Start, The First Electric Self Start was installed in a Cadillac By GM. Up until this time, all cars needed to be started by cranking a starting handle which was hard work and caused multiple minor injuries when the car backfired during the starting process.

Madame Butterfly, Puccini's opera 'Madame Butterfly' which tells the story of an American sailor, B.F. Pinkerton, who marries and abandons a young Japanese geisha, Cio-Cio-San, or Madame Butterfly had its world premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy.

Manhattan Sweatshop Fire, A Fire breaks out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in Manhattan on March 25th. The building was overcrowded with women immigrant workers and poor safety standards including the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked allowing no exit from the fire on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors which meant the women either burned in the fire or took a chance of surviving by jumping from windows one hundred feet above the street. The fire caused the death of 146 garment workers, almost all of them women, who either died from the fire or jumped from the fatal height.

First Indianapolis 500, The first-ever running of the Indianapolis 500 is won by Ray Harrounat at an average speed of 74.59 miles an hour.

2) Who was J.B. Priestly, and what did he do in his life? 

Priestley was a prolific and industrious writer. He published 39 plays and 26 novels as well as volumes of essays and criticism and continued to write into old age. He died on 14 August 1984. Further information about the life of J P Priestley can be found via the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

3) What are the symbols and motifs in narratives?

If something is mentioned once to allude to something else, it's a symbol. If something is mentioned several times throughout a story, it's a motif. Think of symbols as baby motifs. They only grow up to become motifs if they're repeated throughout the course of a narrative.

4) What was life like in England in the 1910s? 

The Poor	The Wealthy
had few luxuries. ate food they could afford to buy worked long hours lived in damp, filthy conditions. Many children died of the disease.	usually well-fed, clean, and well clothed. didn't need to work live in big houses with servants went on holidays children had expensive toys children went to school