Significance of the tittle - Look Back in anger

Look back in anger is a suitable title for the play. It has two part-look back and- in anger. certainly, there is enough anger in the play. Its hero Jimmy Porter, is an angry young man. As one critic puts it he is furious with life. The title of the play is apt and appropriate. I t is significant and suggestive. It hints the theme of the play. The story of the play moves around the play. In the play, Osborne has depicted the mood of despair, anger, and frustration of the postwar generation. It is a study of class conflict and frustration caused by it. The title of the play indicates it. Seeing the title reader comes to know what the play is about.

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The title of John Osborne's play "Look Back in Anger" is very much suitable with the flow of the theme of the play. The entire play experiences the tremors of Jimmy's violently angry tirades directed at his fellow inhabitants in the play. Jimmy's anger is one of the predominant themes of the play affecting all those characters related to him. Another recurrent motif is Looking Back as most of the characters including Alison, Helena, and Colonel Redfern reassess the past as they remember it. Unlike Jimmy who isn’t able to transcend bygone sufferings, the others acknowledge their previous mistakes and express regret or repentance.

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"Anger" is the right word to describe his character as he hated a lot of people, including Helena and his wife, Alison, Alison's mother, brother and a whole lot bunch of friends and always vent his anger and ire on them, sometimes hurling nasty and disturbing insults towards them. He hated them due to their social ranking in the power hierarchy, her social standing and is well brought-up "upbringing".

"Looking back" is what makes Jimmy so furious and frustrated when he looks back to the past during the Spanish Civil War at World War Two, which he witnessed the horrors and psychological scarring of war. When he was ten years old, he watched his idealist father died due to complications of his wounds for a year during his fight for democracy, so he lashes out his anger on everyone due to his helplessness and his vulnerability.

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He also hates the class system in the country, where the built-in preferential for those of the rich and the famous and the top of the world, the higher-ranking people to those people at the lower end which were excluded from all power and privileges and have no say in anything, that makes Jimmy's existence on earth seems not worthwhile and meaningless.

He also hates his loved ones as they didn't want to fully commit to loving and refuses to have strong feelings with him, preferring to have it "low-key" relationship, and also at the society which doesn't fulfill promises of windows of opportunity and good fortunes, all the white-lies bastards that Jimmy hate for deceiving the gullible and innocent victims of outrage brainwashing and deception. He also deplored the higher social ranking people in the social and power structure who sits smugly in their sits and who do not leave a helping hand or a guiding light to the less fortunate and those below them and prefers to be self-centered, caring for their own welfare and not of others.