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Look Back in Anger
In theater, the concept of a "fourth wall" is integral to most playwrights' concepts of story and production. Simply, it refers to an imaginary wall separating the audience from the stage and is...
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Look Back in Anger
Stage directions can be complicated for two reasons: one, directors may choose to ignore them in favor of stylistic or other creative changes, subject to their own interpretation. Two, stage...
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Look Back in Anger
Jimmy's character in Look Back in Anger is the "angry young man." Jimmy is upset at the world around him. He feels he is denied his rightful place in British society because of his working...
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Look Back in Anger
The "Angry Young Men" generation was defined with a spirit of "Damn you, England." It was a statement that sought to actively construct a dissenting stance against conformist affirmations of the...
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Look Back in Anger
While different characters embrace anger and frustration in Osborne's work, no character embodies it more than Jimmy. His entire being is the result of anger and frustration. One aspect of...
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Waiting for Godot
Modernism can be clearly seen in these two plays, which both focus very strongly on concerns that are central to modernism and the way that modern man finds himself in an incredibly isolated and...
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Look Back in Anger
One way in which the theme of Osborne's drama has relevance to the modern setting is how Jimmy still exists today. Jimmy feels fundamentally slighted by the world around him. He feels that he has...
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Look Back in Anger
Osborne's work depicts how there is a frustration and anger within the younger generation because of the lack of fulfilled promises. With the ending of the war, there seemed to be a feeling in...
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Look Back in Anger
I think that marriage is shown to be complex. Certainly, marriage is shown to house some fairly emotionally brutal moments. Jimmy's tirades on Alison and the cruelty he displays towards her would...
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Look Back in Anger
One of Jimmy's consistent lines of social critique is the fact that modern England consists of people who do not "feel" anything. They are insulated by routine, a sense of monotony that prevents...
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Look Back in Anger
I think that one way in which we can find the theme of Osborne's work relevant to modern times is because there is not merely one theme that applies, but multiple themes from the work that have...
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William Shakespeare
Because I associate literature with philosophical ideas, I choose Dr. Faustus as the play most valuable among this prestigious list. Goethe was inbedding his whole philosophical premise inside...
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Look Back in Anger
John Osborne's famous play Look Back in Anger sets in a time period in the history of England during the post-World War II when the social, political, economic and cultural glory of England was...
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Look Back in Anger
This is one of Jimmy's choicest lines in the drama. It is a statement of how Jimmy and Alison's mother truly detest one another. He has nothing but contempt for her because she represents the...
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Look Back in Anger
Look back in anger is a suitable title for the play.It has two part-look back and- in anger.certainly there is enough anger in the play.Its hero JimmyPorter,is an angry youngman.As one critic puts...
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Look Back in Anger
I think that Osborne depicts Jimmy as having moments where he is sadistic. I don't think that he can be seen as a pure sadist because he does recognize that his love with Alison is, at its core,...
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Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger first opened in 1956. Declared a chauvinistic play by the critics of the time, it has undergone revision over the years, and many contemporary scholars think that it is unfair to...
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Look Back in Anger
to look back in anger is not very healhty for the human spirit and body. a looking back that instil anger in us is necessarily recalling an unpleasant experience we probably had, which are still...
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Look Back in Anger
One of the central themes of this important play is that of alienation and loneliness, that is of course presented to us in the character of Jimmy Porter. In particular, Osborne uses him as a...
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Look Back in Anger
Anger and Hatred Jimmy Porter operates out of a deep well of anger. His anger is directed at those he loves because they refuse to have strong feelings, at a society that did not fulfill promises...
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Look Back in Anger
Literature can never be a mere mirror on reality and, therefore, does not simply copy from it, but reinvents it. Yet, it is fair to say that Look Back in Anger as well as other works of literature...
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Look Back in Anger
I actually grew up in the Midlands, believe it or not! What is interesting about the Midlands as an area of the UK is that it is considered to be a location of the rising middle classes, which we...
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Look Back in Anger
John Osborne's three-act play, Look Back in Anger, established him as the "Angry Young Man" of the mid-1950s British theatre. The play features candy peddler Jimmy Porter, himself quite an angry...
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Look Back in Anger
Let us remember that this play is famous for its depiction of the iconic angry young man, a character which became a feature of such plays and works emerging from around this time. When we consider...
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Look Back in Anger
It is difficult not to see Osborne's work as a pioneering venture in bringing the characterization of "the Angry Young Man" to a wider audience. When it was first seen on stage, critics might have...
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Look Back in Anger
When regarding a text from a feminist perspective one must consider the following things: 1. Does the text depict equality on the social level? 2. Is an attempt made to validate the nature of the...
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Look Back in Anger
I think the title of this play relates to the way that we have all spoken in anger and let anger rule our actions and tongues in various points in our lives, and often in the relationships that...
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Look Back in Anger
"Look Back in Anger" is Osberne's Megnum-opus.
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Look Back in Anger
I think that each statement has a different answer. The first is that the ending of the drama shows that Jimmy and Alison are made for each other. Both of them end up recognizing the reality that...
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Look Back in Anger
In a stylistic manner, yes. The play Look Back in Anger , by John Osborne, attempts to break free from the former generation of playwrights prior to the 1950's. During that era, playwrights had a...
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Look Back in Anger
I believe making tea has been a recurring referent to the drawing-room routine which is a part of the Porter domestic locus in Osborne's play..Jimmy looks upon making tea as a petty obligation...
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Look Back in Anger
When the character of Cliff is introduced at the beginning of Act I of Look Back in Anger, he is described as "a soothing, natural counterpoint to Jimmy." Like Jimmy, he is a working-class man who...
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Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter is the angry young man of the post war generation. He is violent and unpleasant like Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named ,Desire. He uses foul and dirty languages...
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Look Back in Anger
Osborne describes Jimmy as "a disconcerting mixture of sincerity and cheerful malice, of tenderness and free-booting cruelty; restless, importunate, full of pride, a combination which alienates the...
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Look Back in Anger
I do not subscribe to the view that Jimmy and Alison are "made for each other". I, however, agree that "there is no solution for either of them". Alison, the daughter of a Colonel and the sister of...
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Look Back in Anger
Sure! After World War II, there was a new phrase that appeared that was originally coined by Leslie Allen Paul: "angry young men." Basically, these were English men (usually of the working...
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Look Back in Anger
You will find the answer to your question at the following link : http://www.enotes.com/look-back-anger/q-and-a/critically-comment-view-that-look-back-anger-jimmy-256242
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Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter is his author's mouthpiece in the play, a young university graduate whose anger is a characteristic response to his world around. Jimmy suffers from a deep sense of alienation from his...
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Look Back in Anger
Osborne's play Look Back in Anger explores the theme of alienation in the post-war England of 1950s. Jimmy Porter, the angry protagonist, is his author's mouthpiece in the play. He is a young...
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Look Back in Anger
Your question has been answered. Use the following link: http://www.enotes.com/look-back-anger/q-and-a/plot-look-back-anger-239559
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Look Back in Anger
Osborne's Look Back in Anger, a play in three acts, is largely modelled on the Scribean "well-made play". Set in the small attic apartment in the Midlands, the entire action takes place in the...
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Look Back in Anger
As with any work of literature, there are a dazzling array of possible themes that you could identify when examining this excellent play. However one theme that to me stands out clearly is that of...
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Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter is a loud, obnoxious man, rude and verbally abusive to his wife, Alison. Alison comes from an upper class family that Jimmy abhors and he berates Alison for being too reserved and...
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Look Back in Anger
Marlowe's creation of Dr. Faustas as a tragic hero from the ordinary strata of the society , his use of the Aristotalian concept 'Hamartia' and also the supreme egoistic character have made...
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Look Back in Anger
It is very tempting to treat Jimmy Porter as a whiner and a self-enabler, however, the truth is that the time in which the play develops, was one of post war void. All men who served in India...
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Look Back in Anger
England was losing her colonies. Her citizens were coming back home. The population in England increased but jobs did not. Students graduated from universities but didn't get jobs. Unemployment...
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Look Back in Anger
Psychological narrative and plays along with telling a story examine the individual's sense of personal and cultural identity as well as the formation and nature of memories. Some psychologists...
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Look Back in Anger
How the characters in Look Back in Anger influence each other is a very interesting question. Some critics might argue that part of the existential dilemma of the play is that they don't influence...
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Look Back in Anger
If one looked at his anger at Alison, particularly when he berates her for her inablity to feel real, deep emotion even during sex, you could support the point that his anger comes at that...
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Look Back in Anger
Look Back In Anger reflects the social tension of 1950.Through the hero Jimmy the playwright mirrors the tensions of the contemporary lower and middle class young-men .The impact of the 2nd...
