Show how Osborne’s Look Back in Anger presents disillusionment of Post-War generation. / Show how Osborne’s Look Back in Anger presents the mood and temper of Post-War England. / Give an estimate on the character of Jimmy Porter. / Is Look Back in Anger a revolutionary play? Justify your answer.

Show how Osborne’s Look Back in Anger presents disillusionment of Post-War generation. / Show how Osborne’s Look Back in Anger presents the mood and temper of Post-War England. / Give an estimate on the character of Jimmy Porter. / Is Look Back in Anger a revolutionary play?

Justify your answer.

 Look Back in Anger has generally been regarded as an expression of the mood of disillusionment, frustration, and rebelliousness of Post-War youth and Jimmy Porter has been regarded as the spokesman of that Post-War generation. The play is a protest against contemporary society. Jimmy seems to be a rebel against the society which had betrayed the young people and against an older generation which had left the younger people down. Jimmy feels that society has not treated him according to his desires. He is a university graduate but he is running a sweet- stall. Of course, nobody has compelled him to run a sweet stall, but he is already tried his hand at various other occupation as well and has not been able to achieve much success in any. He therefore, finds himself adrift, and is leading a purposeless existence. He finds his Sundays to be depressing because they offer him the same routine- reading the newspapers, drinking tea, ironing the clothes. Even his playing upon the trumpet is just a kind of escape from his boredom. He finds both his wife and his friend to be utterly devoid of any life, animation, or enthusiasm.

Jimmy as a true representative of Post-War generation youth is also a rebel against the class- distinctions of which he found himself to be a victim. Alison’s parents had fiercely opposed Alison’s marriage to him, and that opposition has left bitter memories of them in his mind. Alison, though now his wife, still reminds him of the middle class from which she has come. Her continuing to correspond with her mother means that she is to that extent on the side of his enemy, namely, the middle class. He therefore, keeps talking not only in a sarcastic and condemnatory manner about Alison’s parents and Alison herself, but in a most offensive and insulting manner. Helena too in the beginning is a red rag to him because she is another representative of the arrogant middle class.........................................................................................

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