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Look Back in Anger

John Osborne

Paperback | Pages: 96 pages

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Title	:	Look Back in Anger
Author	:	John Osborne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 96 pages
Published	:	November 18th 1982 by Penguin Books (first published 1957)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Classics. Theatre. Fiction

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I think what happened was that after the huge horror of World War Two and the major effort to remake society in Britain (welfare state, National Health Service) there was a kind of national exhaustion, a slumping into armchairs, and those too young to have fought those battles took the exhaustion for complacency and in the early 50s got really fed up about it, and hence the Angry Young Men – Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (first produced in May 1956) was more or less the first of those. He arrived at the same time that the teddyboys were smashing up seats in cinemas when they went to see Rock Around the Clock (released March 1956). Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and the rest of the rockers were just around the corner, waiting to turn the anger into joy.

So you might think that this angry play was just the kind of kick-start required – that’s what it was seen to be at the time. But when you get to actually read it, or see it or see the 1959 film, it’s like sticking your hand in a food blender. A really unpleasant experience.

Jimmy Porter is a guy who pours out a constant stream of belittling bile and contempt over anything and everything in his poxy life but mostly all over his wife and her female friend. He’s almost but not quite the guy who when his wife undercooks the bacon gives her a black eye and then says look what you made me do. The wife meanwhile is a total doormat. She takes the hours upon hours of psychological bullying because she understands that really he’s a tortured genius who loves her and his pain is caused by the wicked world which persists in not recognising his genius and forcing him to live in a tiny one room flat and sell confectionary in a market place even though his brain is the size of the planet Jupiter at least and he’s really sensitive and watched his father die when he was 10, boo hoo. What Jimmy Porter needs is a solid pistol whipping from Sonny Corleone, but (spoiler alert) this does not happen.

A FEW OF JIMMY’S AMUSING REMARKS

Have you ever noticed how noisy women are? Have you? The way they kick the floor about, simply walking over it? Or have you watched them sitting at their dressing tables, dropping their weapons and banging their bits of boxes and brushes and lipsticks?. I’ve watched her doing it night after night. When you see a woman in front of her bedroom mirror, you realise what a refined sort of butcher she is.

I know that the only way of finding out what’s going on is to catch them when they don’t know you’re looking. When she goes out, I go through everything – trunks, cases, drawers, bookcase, everything. Why? I want to know if I’m being betrayed.

My wife… sweet and sticky on the outside, and sink your teeth in it, inside, all white, messy and disgusting.

I’ve no public school scruples about hitting girls.

Why why why why do we let these women bleed us to death?

The plot of the play is pure male fantasy – he spends an hour bullying his wife, then her female friend arrives so he bullies her too, then the wife leaves him (hurray!) then the wife’s friend falls into his arms saying she just loves a bit of rough. Jimmy’s nastiness is all explained by his acute sensitivity and how he was a lonely little boy and now he’s an over-educated market trader in a world where he should be president of everything. So that’s why he hates women.

Look Back in Anger was one of those famous British productions I had never read or seen before so I thought I’d tick it off, and now I’m sorry I did.

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Original Title:	Look Back in Anger
ISBN:	0140481753 (ISBN13: 9780140481754)
Edition Language:	English

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Just as WWI gave Great Britain "The Lost Generation", WWII gave it "The Angry Young Men". This play is significant in that it was the first British play to explore that phenomenon. The angry Young Men were the working class men that were confronted by a country that had lost its empire and standing in the world, and the upper classes were seemingly unaware of it. This is born out in the character of Colonel Redfern. The continued presence of a monarchy also insulted the sensibilities of the

Overrated, I'm all for anti-heroes but there is simply nothing interesting about this bitter misanthrope with no compelling reason for his cruelty. Nor is there anything to explain why his wife and her 'best' friend love him so. Passive, one dimensional females who serve as a sounding board for this misogynist - actually why limit the guy, he hates everybody - if you're still interested, by all means help yourself to this one.

This play is an object lesson in how to write an unintentionally hilarious memoir piece. It's also just seems like badly constructed theatre; no action onstage, just this unbelievably wordy inertia with Jimmy just yapping off at the jib while all the other actors have to dig within their souls to find reasons to a. stay in the room with Jimmy, b. not immediately ball-gag and/or kill Jimmy. The Colonel thinks Jimmy was right after all?!? The scene with the two women talking about who gets to STAY

Look Back in Anger is the play that literally changed everything in British theatre. I'm currently doing a module in uni on British theatre of the 1960s and my lecturer keeps referring to Look Back in Anger. Not five minutes will go by before she mentions Look Back in Anger and just how important it was. So I thought to myself, "hmmm, I probably should read Look Back in Anger.So, we have Jimmy, a loud, rude, obnoxious, violent, angry young man. He's the main guy. The play's all about how awful

this star rating is tough and reductive tbh, because i hated every single character in this book and i hated the way osborne tries to position jimmy as a rebel of his time BUT i loved the fast-paced witty - sometimes truly shocking - writing, the raw-ness of the book - every awful detail laid bare, and i loved the discussion my lit class this semester got to have about jimmy. some opinions: jimmy's misogyny is so violent and terrifying, and you can definitely take a freudian reading of this

I can understand why when this play came out in 1956, it was a very controversial subject. There were many people who thought the play was brilliant and powerful while others thought of it as disgusting and detestable. Although Osbornes writing is extremely blunt and very harsh at times (mostly with Jimmy Porter), the play brings up important political and social issues that were prominent at this time in England (the separation of classes, sexism, etc.).Jimmy is an angry young man and he

Jimmy, I recommend a cold shower and enrolling yourself in Feminism 101.