Briefly discuss on Angry young men

Angry Young Men may be a phenomenon not of literature but rather of literary men, little question belonging to the late 1950s. The term ‘Angry Young Men’ had its origin in Kenneth Allsop’s definition in his remarkable social treatise The Angry Decades, published in 1958. This definition characterises the young generation because the persons, ‘‘irreverence, stridency, impatience with tradition, vigour, vulgarity, sulky resentment against the cultivated.’’ The cause, as implied by the author, is social unrest and economic impair, resulting from the Second war and its terrible impact on the new generation. As a matter of fact, the economic depression, the social disintegration and therefore the refore the sharp disillusion of the post-war days seem to possess resulted within the emergence of a group of angry young men within the English society within the fifties and the sixties. They were thoroughly disgruntled with the prevailing state of affairs and began denouncing an equivalent in wrath and despair, clamoured for a change, but didn't know how that would be possible or what would be its nature. Their expectation was quite high of the change of the state of living within the country by the post-war welfare activities. Unfortunately they didn't least gat what that they had cherished and desired. Their feelings of wrath and despair were natural to their deep sense of betrayal and futility which followed their exalted aspirations, generated by the much expected post-war reforms.

In the concept of such a situation, alarming both for the young and therefore the old, for the times of the revolution in those spheres were long gone. The revolution was within the world of literature - within the theatre and therefore the fictional writing especially . The concept of Angry Young men in literature was definitely a movement, as clearly indicated in Collin Wilson’s study of alienation within the Outsider published in 1956, taken as an ingenious and important manifesto for the movement. The movement started within the world of fictions with john wain’s novel Hurry on Down(1956) kingsley Amis’s Lucky jim (1954), John Braine’s Room at the Top(1957)and Alam Sillitoe’s saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958). But the classic embodiment of the concept of Angry Young Men was seen within the world of drama - in john Osborne’s play Lok Back in Anger, staged in 1956.