Comment on the historical significance of Look Back in Anger.

 The title Look Back in Anger predicates a definite touch of ambiguity. The title may be taken as an imperative on the part of the speaker (author), the audience or purposely among the characters set in the framework of a play, which could be nothing but a miniature for the world against the age in question.

Whatever be the intent, the play demands a looking glass analysis of the circumstances and the characters vis-à-vis a charged currents and under-currents of conflicts that seem to run through

the socio- economic, socio-psychological and historical swathes criss-crossed by political discontent of the times.

A closer look at the title would elicit an objective division of two themes embodied in it—‘to look back’ and ‘anger’. It is very likely that Osborne is of the view that to put an age in retrospect needs an emotion and there can be simply nothing more appropriate than ‘Anger’, when things come to rest on history of an age that governs the lot of an ill fated generation.

Despite its intellectual inconsistencies, the myth of anger helped place all who believed in it as it gives them a better reach into numerous areas of personal and public life hitherto inexplicable but stand accessible to emotion.

As Jeff Nuttall puts it, ‘Not one of us had any serious political preoccupation, but all had a crackling certainty of now.’ In the aftermath of post war austerity, the idea of anger came with the excitement of risk encompassing the new heaven of consumer pleasure and the looming paranoia of atomic warfare. English angst envisaged both fear and anger. Of the two, anger helped established identity—it made people take sides.

Anger thus was not only directed towards class resentment but also towards its ‘phoney’ values.

Writing for the New Statesman, T.C. Worsely commended the play for its ‘authentic new tone of the Nineteen Fifties....’ Though he acknowledged many of its weaknesses, he went on to urge the readers not to miss the play, ‘If you are young, it will speak for you. If you are middle _____ __________ _____ __________ ______ ______ ___.
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