Look Back in Anger as a Play of Angry Young Man Movement

Abstract

 It is an established fact that in the late 1950s a number of young writers, among whom A. Wesker, Kingsley Amis, and above all, John Osborne who are worthy of detailed consideration, had an immense success in Britain. They were grouped under the label of “Angry Young Men”. They gave voice to the young generation who, dissatisfied with the world they lived in, wanted to create their own way of living. They struggled against the Establishment and some of its values: family, patriotism, the Established Church and culture. They began to cry out against conventions, tradition and authoritarianism. They felt cheated as the promises of the Welfare State had revealed to be empty: society fed them well, educated them well, but still kept them trapped in a class system that opened the doors to the rich public school members of the upper-middle class and kept them closed in the faces of the members of the working class.