How does the play present it’s attitude towards women in the play?
As one of the main goals for the play, JB Priestley presents his socialist views as keeping everyone as ‘one body’, and aims to reflect that through the ideologies of the Inspector. However, there are many wrongdoings and imbalances in society at that time, and this was reflected through the remainder of the characters in the play. One of the greatest ones is the injustice towards women at the time, and this was explained in spectacular detail through a ‘poster child’ Eva Smith, a working class woman who ended up committing suicide, setting off the events in the play.
Eva Smith is portrayed in the play as one of the victims of exploitations of women