BIOGRAPHICAL OBSESSION OF JIMMY PORTER IN LOOK BACK IN ANGER
LOOK BACK IN ANGER: JIMMY PORTER'IN ÖZ YAŞAMSAL TAKINTISI

Author : Memet Metin BARLIK
Number of pages : 161-170

Abstract

Look Back in Anger (1956) reflects the life expectancies of working class in postwar England, questioning the political attitude of ruling class. Jimmy Porter is a keen spokesman character to defend the ‘anger' of lower middle class but fails to escape revealing the ‘anger' of his biographical background. He discusses the reasons for social inertia but is a loser of relative deprivation in his private life. Jimmy has a self-sacrificing role in his leadership to awake and make the i

Keywords

John Osborne, Look Back in Anger, Jimmy Porter, Working Class, Political Play

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