Class hate into sexual hate in Look Back in Anger
Author
Öztürk, Emel
Advisor
Çalışkan, Hamit
Date
1993Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to consider John Osborne's
Look Back in Anger from the point of view of the function of
gender. This involves the playwright's depiction of gender
contradiction which results from the need for the family members
to re-adjust to the public and private roles they had before the
war. In the play the male character's dilenmna lies in the
fulfilment of expected social and sexual roles. He is the main
focus of the play in a domestic setting where he can sublimate
his sense of class hatred into sexual hatred. He is allowed
enough space and tools to destroy his 'faninine' wife in an
effort to rediscover his own potency. Thus, this thesis mainly
focuses on the question of 'virility' along with the play's
fundamental mysogynist and patriarchal nature which reflects the
sexual hatred of the Angries generation and Osborne's sense of
his time as a transition period,
MLA style sheet has been followed throughout the thesis.
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