play report on a look back in anger
The play, A Look Back in Anger, by John Osborne brings the notion of the "angry man gone mad" to the surface. But what does this play teach us? Or, does this play teach us anything? At the end of this paper it will be evident that this play does teach us something, and that is how some people, as individuals, have their own ways of thinking, and reacting, which are considerably different from the social norms. Of course the character we will be analyzing is Jimmy. There are 3 stimuli that correspond to radical reactions by Jimmy. The first stimulus is love; Jimmy has ways of expressing his love to the women of his life that are different than the rest of society's. The second stimulus is the natural aggression towards threats, and most of these threats are small, that Jimmy expresses with Cliff, and also in Allison's mother, in particular. The final trigger to Jimmy's radical way of reacting is that of death. It seems to be an image that haunts him throughout the play and he only brings it to the surface after the halfway point. This, last, stimuli can be regarded as an explanation to his radical ways, that give him the image of the "angry man". However, there is one over-ruling thesis that covers all three stimuli that is the
Women are obviously not compatible with Jimmy at all, even the landlord, Miss Drury, provides Jimmy with another threat. Primarily because this is the only other male character that Jimmy comes in contact with in the play, and they have never stopped arguing throughout the play. The shocking portion of this relationship between them both is that Jimmy actually trusts Cliff. "I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry-angry and helpless. This goes to show that people like Jimmy do not change their ways of thinking overnight, this will take a long time before Jimmy accepts the social rules. He is obviously emotionally scarred by his father's death, from when Jimmy was only ten years old. Allison as a Squirrels, and Jimmy as a bear also demonstrates the way their perceive each other. This key in this situation is the communication problem, they ask one question to each other, and it is not answered until a dozen other questions are asked. This just goes to prove that Jimmy is insecure with women in general, otherwise he would hate his father-in-law too. The second stimuli we will analyze are that of the aggression towards any competition. It is normal for men and their in-laws to have some conflicts; Jimmy takes this situation to a horrible level in wishing death to her. He returns to the home, where Helena tells him that Allison left, and tries to remain the old self by threatening Helena, but he breaks down; she kisses him and they fall for each other.
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