(Themes) Loss of childhood and Real life

The first theme I am going to discuss is “Loss of childhood” this is a theme that effects the my character and the character of Alison, John Osborne uses specific examples such the death of jimmy’s father when Jimmy was ten years old and how Jimmy had to watch to physical and mental demise of his father, this shows Jimmy was forced to deal with suffering from an early age witch unable him to have proper childhood. Another way that the theme is expressed is through Alison due to the way she was forced to grow up to fast by marrying jimmy, in the years of Alison’s youth she receives large amount of abuse and torment instead of being able to live her life freely which means her youth was wasted. John Osborne suggests that a generation of young British people have experienced an identical loss of childhood innocence; John Osborne also uses examples such as world war, the development of the atom bomb and the decline of the British Empire to that England’s culture at the time was completely desensitised unlike others. The second theme I am going to discuss is “Real life”, in “Look back in anger” Jimmy is consumed with the desire to be able to live a more real and full life, he compares this desire to the empty actions and attitudes of others at the beginning of the play he shows this by criticising the writing in the newspaper but as the play goes on jimmy proceeds to do the same to the people around him in an angry, offensive and at times aggressive way, Jimmy’s character believes that this anger is a way of him really living.