Endless Wrath And Boundless Nostalgia

This paper puts emphasis on exploring into the realistic significance of"anger"and"nostalgia"in John Osborne's new play Look Back in Anger relating to the reality in the postwar Britain closely that one may better understand protagonist's anger and its real origin, the social reality and psychology of people in the postwar Britain. As the head of the Angry Young Men, John Osborne inherited the British writing technique of traditional realistic style, putting forward protests against the tradition's bondage, the class conception, national interests, churches existent, labour union, family, marriage and private properties. He expressed the living frustrations, deeply-felt disappointment and affliction experienced by the contemporary British people, and the reality of the British social environment and human psychological states was revealed meanwhile. However, the protagonist is self-pitying and frequently takes common problems to be individual ones; he blindly opposes his wife who represents the middle class and stages fierce attacks against Britain's social realities at that time, failing to propose any other alternatives; his attitude to the previous colonial Empire is mild. The writer has employed virulent and nasty words in this play to depict the discrimination and hatred against the females. It would be revealed that John Osborne and Look Back in Anger have their limitations respectively.