Sattorova shahlo

Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education
Bukhara State University
Foreign Languages faculty 11-1ing-17 group
SATTOROVA SHAHLO


Theme : Loss of childhood of “ Look Back in Anger “ by
John Osborne


Checked by : PHD M.B. Akhmedova

Bukhara – 2021

Abstract

This research paper intends to study Look Back in Anger as a problem play . The paper deals with the aspect of social conflicts consequent upon individual conflicts . Sense of loss in modern generation is the key concept of the play . The sense of loss leads to deprission in modern people is reflected through the paper .
Key words : Anger , character , Jimmy , Alison , Cliff , Helena ,
Obsorne .

Introduction

John Osborne was a born playwight . In his creative world dramatic expression comes with a perfect naturalness and ease . He remained defiantly a popular dramatist who was capable of speaking to a mass public . His play has a sense of social complexity . His major plays , particularly problem plays have never ceased to be the ' lesson in feeling ' . The depiction of the middle age group by Osborne is true to fact . Through his plays , Osborne had opened up a much wider subject than rebelliousness or youthful anger , that of social alienation . In his plays , through characters he depicted modern man's personality and mentality of modern generation . He portrayed youth which is disconcerting mixture of sincerity and cheerful malice , of tenderness and freebooting cruelty . Look Back in Anger is one of his remarkable plays that reveals the psyche of post world war generation . It is considered as his landmark play . It was written in 1965 . It is Osborne's first major work . The play , Look Back in Anger was liked by The English Stage company . They gave Osborne the face of their new playwright the play initiated a new era in British theatre .

Literature review

The play Look Back in Anger (1956 ) represents dissillusionment and despair of the group of British novelists and playwrights who were associated with the '' Angry young men ''movement who shared their opinions to express their anger with the status quo . The direction dialogues and characterization are remarkably employed by John Osborne . Various critics commented over the course and theme of Osborne's play . Barker , The Daily Express , May 9 , 1956 called this play as '' intense , angry , feverish and undisciplined ''. Michael Blington also calls it as a an expression of personal gain more than a social course .
Analysis
The title of the book : Look Back in Anger
Author : John Osborne
Genre : realism
Theme : Loss of childhood
A theme that impacts the characters of Jimmy and Alison's Porter is the idea of a lost childhood . Osborne uses specific examples the death of Jimmy's father when Jimmy was only ten and how he was forced to watch the phsical and mental demise of the man to demonstrate the way in which Jimmy is forced to deal with suffering from an early age . Alison's loss of childhood is best seen in the way that she was forced to grow up too fast by marrying Jimmy . Her youth is wasted in the anger and abuse that her husban levels upon her . Osborne recommend that a generation of British youth has experienced this same loss of childhood innocence . Osborne uses the examples of World War , the development of the atomic bomb , and the decline of the British Empire to show how an entire culture has lost the innocence that other generations were able to maintain .
Setting : Setting refers to the spatiotemporal dimensions of a work of art . The two important concepts in setting are time and place . It can (be ) then be said that Osborne's Look Back in Anger is set in the England of the 1950s . By this time , Britian had just emerged from World War II and was counting her losses . Her status as world power was being threatened with the emergence of the United States as the contending world power . It should be noted that the United States was once colonised by Britian . Thus , the significance here is that power was gradually shifting from the coloniser to colinised , from the powerful to the powerless . An instance is the independence of India from British rule in 1947 shortly after World War II and this was to be followed by the independence of other British colonies around the world especially in Africa , where Ghana for instance , gained independence in 1957 .
The play , especially , is also set in a rented apartment in the Midlands . The Midland is so called because it is bordered by Northern and Southern England and was popular in the industrial revolution of the 18th and the 19th centuries . It is significant that Jimmy and Cliff who are working class people also stay in Midlands . The spatial setting in the play is mostly in a rented room apartment . The other places like London where Hugh's mother stays are merely mentioned . The specific temporal setting of the play for first act is a Sunday in April during the season of spring . Act II is set two weeks after the first and it is the act where Helena Charles , who had arrived at the end of the first act , Calls Alison's father to come for his daughter . The third and final Act is set several months after Alison had left Jimmy and Helena had taken her place . Alison returns to the house in this act and Helena leaves to allow her take over her rightful place as the wife of Jimmy .
Main characters :
Jimmy Porter
Jimmy Porter is an educated young man in post–World War II England. He is disillusioned with life in general—his own life, his wife and marriage, and his country. He is a relentless critic of everything around him, sometimes acerbic and hurtful, sometimes playful and vulgar. His wife, Alison, is his primary target, though his good friend Cliff is also subject to Jimmy's invective. His claims of honesty can be purposely cruel and equally sincere. Bred of lower-class roots, Jimmy harbors severe resentment toward England's middle and upper classes—from which his wife was bred. While he is capable of occasional tenderness and sensitivity, Jimmy makes life difficult and
antagonistic for everyone around him.
Alison Porter
Alison is a young, educated woman stuck in a difficult marriage with a difficult man. Bred of upper-class stock, she shunned her parents' admonitions against marrying Jimmy—especially her mother's angry and somewhat vindictive threats. Alison simply tries to survive the heated and antagonistic environment she lives in. She takes solace in the occasional letter from her parents, Cliff Lewis's affection and kindness, and the occasional sparks of genuine care and tenderness her husband shows. She feels she and Jimmy have a unique connection, though she doubts this alone is enough to sustain their marriage.
Major characters :
Cliff Lewis
Cliff Lewis is Welsh, an old friend of Jimmy Porter's, and he frequently endures his friend's malicious wrath. He shares a similar background to Jimmy as well as his disillusionment with modern England. But while he often agrees withJimmy, he also sets himself apart from his friend with his laid-back, genuine character and more hopeful view of life. Cliff is particularly fond of Alison Porter and often serves as a protector or buffer between her and Jimmy. Cliff and Alison are remarkably affectionate toward each other, to Jimmy's amusement and annoyance. Cliff helps Jimmy with the sweets stall. He spends much of his leisure time in the Porters' one-room apartment even though he apparently has a room of his own in the same building.
Helena Charles
Helena Charles is an actress and one of Alison Porter's oldest friends. She is aware of the negative marriage situation Alison is in, and she is not a fan of Jimmy Porter. Helena comes to stay in the same building with the Porters while passing through with a touring show. She urges Alison to leave and return to her parents. Jimmy does not like or trust Helena. Their interactions are oftenvitriolic, with both threatening physical violence. Though offended by Jimmy, Helena is also somewhat fascinated by such a prideful loudmouth, and she eventually acts on her desires.
Minor characters :
Colonel Redfern
Colonel Redfern is a retired military officer and Alison's father. He rarely sees his daughter.
Discussion
Psychological storytelling and games explore the personal and cultural identity of the individual, as well as the formation and essence of memories, along with storytelling. Some psychologists believe that these two psychological components(identity and memory) are an integral part of the personality. Look at the anger, Jimmy’s most important concern is to understand his personal and cultural identity. Moreover, his concern is for the English working class, and for the lower class in general, although his concern is indeed the wrath of his father's death, for it has been a death caused by culture in the true sense of the word since he left. As a freedom fighter to fight in the Spanish Civil War as much as the English idealists. Moreover, the reasons for Jimmy’s thoughts, attitudes, and behavior are directly related to memory, especially his memory of his father’s tragic and tragic death, Jimmy says he learned to be angry and helpless, something he says: he forgot.
Conclusion
To sum up the social and personal concern , the play comes to the analysis that John Osborne ‘s attempt to represent the two main movements and the frustration of the youngsters has been splendid and enormous throughout the main course of the play . The thematic concern has been astonishing since the first show . A play with three acts and five scenes aptly covers the structural form of the play focusing on the social and personal notions of the playwright . With a keen notion defining the social and political changes and the growing disbeliefs of the society , the characters of Jimmy Porter can be considered as a highly representative of that time . As the metter of the act , the attempt of the playwright .

• Reference .

• 1 Barker , John . A Review of Look Back in Anger in daily Express , May 9 , 1956 .
• 2 Osborne , John . Look Back in Anger . London : Faber and Faber , 1971
• 3 Weiss ,Samuel A. “ Osborne’s Angry Young Play “. Educational Theatre Journal 12.4 ( 1960 ) : 285-288 . JSTOR
• 4 ---Almost a Gentleman : An Autobiography Vol . II : 1955-1956 . London : Faber and Faber , 1991 , Print .