"justify"> and for their more radical contemporaries. Harold Pinter (b.1930) with his works The Caretaker, The Homecoming, No Man s Land, and other dramatist of the time associated with the Theatre of the Absurd abandoned realism, plot and characterization in order to communicate a sense of emptiness and absurdity of modern existence.best known writers of the group are the novelists. Kingsley Amis, John Wain and John Braine, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, and playwright John Osborne.these writers pictured the life of young people dissatisfied with something in their surrounding life. Their works are full of irritation and confusion caused, on the one hand, by the bourgeois way of life and on the other, by their lack of purpose. were some concrete social factors which called forth the general discontent among the post-war younger generation. When World War II came to an end, many people in the Western countries expected democratic reforms. This expectation was especially strong in England where the Labour Party promised a free and prosperous life to millions of common people. Therefore many people supported the Labour Party which was going to carry but a social revolution. Years passed, however, and nothing changed for the better. Politicians are marvels of energy and principle when they are out of office, but when they are in they simply run behind the machine. As soon as the British Labourists came to power they forgot to abide by their commitments. These social factors also determined the peculiarities of literary works by the young writers of the fifties.young people of the 50s can rightly be called second lost generation . The two generations lived in the same time and conditions - the war and post-war time. They both lost their previous beliefs in the governments who promised them better life, they were disillusioned and disappointed, they did not enjoy real democracy and their bitterness and anger was endless.there is a great difference between the two generations. Lost generation actively fought for better life in the trenches of World War I, while angry young men were passive. They did not take part in the war; they were young people fresh from red-brick universities with the diplomas in their pockets. They could not use their knowledge. They spoke much about faithfulness but they were not devoted to their friends and beloved. Their disillusion concerns primarily their conditions and unsettledness. Daily routine sharpened their realization of being useless in the society on which they laid their hopes. They cried out their hearts and souls undertaking no steps to make the life better. Angry young men declared that they were not only lost but also betrayed and directed their bitter abuses at everybody and everything.belong to the English post-war generation which has not found its place in life. They did not, however, have any noble cause in the name of which they would be ready to fight. Being limited by their petty-bourgeois world outlook, and their own individualism, their protest is passive. Their rebellion is that of petty-bourgeois youth, a social section, which was very numerous in England in the 50s of the XX-th century. In general, the heroes of the angry young men writers are young men who came from the lower quarters to the upper decent society by either getting education or by marrying a girl from a rich family. The society was strange and hostile to the young men. Some of them fought tooth and nail against pusillanimous sycophantic representatives of the upper class, others returned to their own folk. Many of them, in case they returned to their own class, loathed the idea of ​​suffering disabilities in all aspects of life. But all these people had one common feeling - the aversion to the Establishment.
John Osborne
1929-1994Osborne was born on December 12, 1929 in Fulham, London. His father was an advertising copywriter. He died in 1941, leaving John Osborne an insurance settlement which gave the boy the possibility to enroll at Belmont College in Devon from which he was expelled after striking the headmaster at the age of sixteen. Later he spent about eight years as an actor in a provincial repertory theatre. After serving as actor-manager for some repertory companies he decided to try his hand at playwriting. When his first produced play Look Back in Anger appeared at the Royal Court Theatre, its author was totally unknown. But immediately after the staging of the play Osborne became noted as a representative of a new generation of dramatists. His play is considered by many critics to be the ...
