Look Back in Anger
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Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger is a non-African play written by John Osborne written in the year 1956. It centres around the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected working-class young man, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet dispassionate upper-middle-class wife Alison. Jimmy Porter expresses scorn and disaffection with the established sociopolitical order of their country. The play typically features a rootless, lower-middle or working-class male protagonist, Jimmy, who views society with scorn and disaffection because of the established sociopolitical order of their country.