Discuss the ways in which John Osborne presents frustration among his characters in 'Look Back in Anger'.

Osborne uses Look Back in Anger to give a layered insight into the frustration felt from many areas of society in 1950s Britain. With regards to the question it is important to recognise how frustration is felt differently depending on the perspective of the character: whether they are a man or woman, working class or upper class. Jimmy, an intelligent young man, is trapped in a monotonous and tedious routine that he is unable to escape from. He is denied the opportunity to elevate himself into an affluent condition because he is working class and by being working class in 1950s British society; one is determined to remain there. This perspective differs wildly from Colonel Redfern. The dissolution of the British Empire results in his sudden loss of importance and authority on a universal scale and leaves him entirely disillusioned. Lastly, there is the frustration that surrounds Alison who suffers under Jimmy’s unrelenting misogyny, analysing her oppression could be done interestingly with the use of de Beauvoir’s ideas in The Second Sex.