Kitchen Sink Realism in John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” and its relevance in the 21st century society

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Prof Mitalee Mayuresh Gangal

KITCHEN SINK REALISM, DISILLUSIONMENT, REBELLIOUSNESS, POST-WAR YOUTH, ANGRY YOUNG MEN

Kitchen sink drama depicted the grim reality of ordinary working class people. The literary works that fall in this category mainly deal with poverty issues, lack of employment, poor living conditions, and turbulent relationships. This paper attempts to study this literary genre in the seminal work of John Osborne’s “Look back in Anger,” that was first produced in 1956, and was regarded as a play depicting disillusionment and rebelliousness of post war youth in Britain. The protagonist of the play, Jimmy Porter, came to be looked upon as a spokesman of the post war young generation. In the public mind, “Look back in Anger” together with the “Entertainer” by John Osborne, became related at the time to social and political upheavals, the unease, discontent, and frustration of English society in the backwash of the Suez war. The Kitchen sink realism deals with the time when the young generation was puzzled by the Hungarian revolution, unhappy about Britain’s last imperialist fling at Suez, and determined to protest against the hydrogen bomb and about all kinds of political and social questions. This movement was developed in the late 1950s in theatre, novels, films, whose protagonists would usually be described as ‘angry young men’ that was displayed through their temper and the complete disillusionment in the post war youth. Osborne expressed his feelings by his sharp comments on matters ranging from “Posh” Sunday newspapers and “White tile” universities to bishops of the time. The ranting Jimmy Porter of a working class origin became the spokesman of this mood, just as the Byronic hero or ‘Hamlet’ or Marlowe’s ‘Dr. Faustus’ had been for similar moods in their times. It seemed natural to relate the vogue of anger to the emergence of a new educated class which felt itself denied the opportunities of the old.

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Prof Mitalee Mayuresh Gangal (August-2023). Kitchen Sink Realism in John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” and its relevance in the 21st century society. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(8), e300-e302. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2308428.pdf

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