john b priestley had formulated an inspector calls in 1945 where it was based in 1912. both of these dates are heavily pertinent because it exposes priestley had wrote the didactic play in a community arising from the second world war when people looked back fondly at pre-world war one. in addition priestley used his play to show that the idea of a 1912 society was gradually being washed away by the upper classes and that the world needed to change instead of returning back in an egoistic society which existed in pre-war england h h h h h h h