the War British society changed after the war The old ruling class lost much of its power But the middle class did not gain full respect Hero of the drama Jimmy Porter is educated but poor He feels trapped between classes He marries Alison a woman from an upper-class family But their marriage turns into a battlefield of class conflict In Act II Alison admits Some people do actually marry for revenge This shows that their relationship was shaped not only by love but also by social revenge Their relationship reflects the deep class tensions of the time Emotional Frustration and Lost Purpose After the First World War young men felt they had no grand cause Life became dull and empty In Act I Jimmy complains Let s pretend that we re human beings and that we re actually alive This sarcastic line shows his frustration with a boring middle-class life He longs for adventure and noble struggle but instead finds routine and disappointment The war created restless men But society gave them nothing meaningful to do Osborne reflects this mood through Jimmy s constant anger Generation Gap The war also created a gap between the older generation who missed the old order But the younger generation who felt trapped in society Alison explains the difference between her father Colonel Redfern and Jimmy In Act II Allison says You re hurt because everything is changed Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same This single line shows the double pain of post-war Britain The old generation could not accept change and the new generation could not find progress Both felt displaced which deepened the national crisis Reflection of the Angry Young Men Movement Jimmy Porter is often called the first angry young man of British theatre This movement showed the anger hopelessness and frustration of post-war youth His rudeness bitterness and endless fights reflect the voice of many men who felt betrayed by society Jimmy s anger is not just personal it represents a whole generation that inherited war trauma but no clear future Trauma and Suffering The war not only kills soldiers it also scars families In Act I Jimmy recalls For twelve months I watched my father dying when I was ten years old This line shows his deep childhood trauma Many families after the war had to live with slow deaths and long suffering so Jimmy s pain reflects a wider social reality Because of this experience he believes real suffering gives meaning to life He despises the comfortable middle class who never truly experienced hardship In short Look Back in Anger reflects the broken society after the First World War Osborne shows the collapse of values class conflict and lost hopes Jimmy s anger is the voice of a whole generation searching for meaning