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Colonel Redfern and Class Change In Look Back In Anger

Colonel Redfern and Class Change 'In Look Back In Anger' By John Osborne

The class change is present in almost every country that ever existed. In its essence, it represents a logical continuation of the existence of the state, country, or any sovereign realm under altered circumstances. And when new conditions are established, logically, new moral values are set, social matters are seen as new qualities, even sometimes, new vocabularies are recognized, thus changing the priorities of the society.

In the play of John Osborne, “ Look Back in Anger”, we can sense this social change that originates from the aftermath of The Second World War.” Look Back in Anger ” is an outcome of that change. It reflects, for the first time, the real issues of real people, who suffered the consequences of the war and the immediate class change of the society that followed. The play itself represents a turn point of the modern British drama.

One of the characters I am going to elaborate, which is directly con-cerned with the class change, is the colonel Redfern, Alison’s father.

Colonel Redfern obtained and formed his attitudes towards the world was the late Victorian Age. A period when there was an enormous increase in wealth in the Empire and also a period when the British Empire reached its climax in the development of the outcomes gained with the Industrial Revolution – the non-evitable zenith – imperial colonialism. A rather differ-ent set of values, which emphasized hard work, thrift, religious observance, family life, an awareness of one’s duty, absolute honesty in public life, was established at the time. The British considered themselves rather superior to the other people. It was the period of “the white man’s burden” when the British, as a leading nation in the world came to see themselves as having a duty to spread their culture and civilization throughout the colonies they possessed.

He had moved to India in 1914 to take charge of the Maharaja's army. He and the family did not return to the "Motherland" until after war in 1947 which makes it a total of 33 years abroad.

Since then, two world wars and massive social reform have plunged Osborne's England onto a different path. The end of the wars also brought an end to the British Empire. Britain granted political, if not total freedom, to all of...

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