Uses and Gratifications Theory

Peaky Blinders;

Escapism - Peaky blinders, allows audience to escape, or be diverted from their own problems, this is done by the dominant use of a soundtrack, easy signifiers that allow the audience to decode the text passively. For example, when Aunt Polly and Aida are talking about having an abortion, the director Steven Knights, slowly adds a soundtrack to the background, a passive audience would be submissive to this,  the soundtrack is used to highlight and enhance the emotions of a scene, and a passive audience will go along with these emotions and feelings, create sympathy and feel the same emotions as the character, escaping from their own life and feelings.

Personal identify - Women from the same era as the text, 1919, may be able to personally identify with some of the common themes shown throughout Peaky Blinders. An example for that is, the inequality of male and female, and if a women to become pregnant without being in wedlock she would be treated apt differently to the male.