Osborne's Life:
John Osborne was born in 1929 in a London suburb, of a lawyer middle-class parents. He was educated in London in a boarding school where he developed a passion for acting and for writing plays, but in 1946 he left school and worked for two trade magazines. In 1948 he became an actor and shortly after an actor-manager, continuing to write his own plays especially during his periods of unemployment. In 1956 he wrote Look Back in Anger, which was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London and in 1959 the company of Tony Richardson directed the film version of the book. He also acted on TV (1969) and in several films; he worked as a theatre-director and as a film scriptwriter. During his career he has collected a lot of important …show more content…
He is too weak to make his protest against society; he is not even able to explain himself what is wrong with society. He is an outsider in rebellion against the whole Establishment which he sees personified in his wife and her family. He protests without a definite cause to fight for always angry and throwing bad words at anything around him. The origins of his resentment lie in the past, in his father’s death and his mother’s inadequacy.
Alison:
She is one of the major characters of the play and is Jimmy’s wife. A woman with upper-middle-class background, but she is the strongest kind of woman she has the courage to leave her family, since she is always scolded by her husband. She loves him deeply, but does not accept his ideas and does not give all of herself to her husband and cannot put up with his behavior. When she is pregnant, she decides to come back to his husband after losing her …show more content…
The plot is divided into three acts and it takes place in an apartment. Jimmy Porter is the central character and he represents the disappointed British youth of the 1950s. He is a university graduate who lives in an attic flat in the Midlands and is selling sweets in a kiosk with his friend Cliff, since he has not been employed by the government. Jimmy is married with a daughter of a colonel in British Army in India. Alison. Whom he always scolds and yells at.
Although the story concerns all abovementioned four characters, the most dominating character in the play is Jimmy Porter, and it is he who makes all the most important speeches with an intellectual content. Jimmy Porter is also the most important person from the psychological point of view, as he is from the intellectual angle. He is a complex and angry personality, while the others are simple and calm persons.
"People like me don't get fat. I've tried to tell you before. We just burn everything up."
(Look Back in Anger,
John Osborne was born in 1929 in a London suburb, of a lawyer middle-class parents. He was educated in London in a boarding school where he developed a passion for acting and for writing plays, but in 1946 he left school and worked for two trade magazines. In 1948 he became an actor and shortly after an actor-manager, continuing to write his own plays especially during his periods of unemployment. In 1956 he wrote Look Back in Anger, which was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London and in 1959 the company of Tony Richardson directed the film version of the book. He also acted on TV (1969) and in several films; he worked as a theatre-director and as a film scriptwriter. During his career he has collected a lot of important …show more content…
He is too weak to make his protest against society; he is not even able to explain himself what is wrong with society. He is an outsider in rebellion against the whole Establishment which he sees personified in his wife and her family. He protests without a definite cause to fight for always angry and throwing bad words at anything around him. The origins of his resentment lie in the past, in his father’s death and his mother’s inadequacy.
Alison:
She is one of the major characters of the play and is Jimmy’s wife. A woman with upper-middle-class background, but she is the strongest kind of woman she has the courage to leave her family, since she is always scolded by her husband. She loves him deeply, but does not accept his ideas and does not give all of herself to her husband and cannot put up with his behavior. When she is pregnant, she decides to come back to his husband after losing her …show more content…
The plot is divided into three acts and it takes place in an apartment. Jimmy Porter is the central character and he represents the disappointed British youth of the 1950s. He is a university graduate who lives in an attic flat in the Midlands and is selling sweets in a kiosk with his friend Cliff, since he has not been employed by the government. Jimmy is married with a daughter of a colonel in British Army in India. Alison. Whom he always scolds and yells at.
Although the story concerns all abovementioned four characters, the most dominating character in the play is Jimmy Porter, and it is he who makes all the most important speeches with an intellectual content. Jimmy Porter is also the most important person from the psychological point of view, as he is from the intellectual angle. He is a complex and angry personality, while the others are simple and calm persons.
"People like me don't get fat. I've tried to tell you before. We just burn everything up."
(Look Back in Anger,