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An Appraisal of Dominance in Osborne’s "Look Back in Anger"

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Embarking on a work of art like "Look Back in Anger" (LBA) by John Osborne(1929-1994) is not the one and only attempt to manipulate. Many researchers entered this mine to mark the "fourth movement" in modern English drama (Schlueter, 1979:89), or to show the abnormal and the angry mood which prevailed in England after World War II (Lall, 1996:12-15), or to do an appraisal of the behavior of the characters of this play (Alkhidir, 2020). This study is a revisit to the play LBA with a special concentration on the element of "dominance" of some characters over others and "dominance" of the post-war generation over the intolerable realities of society. Mechanisms of turn-taking and turn allocation (Sacks et al. (1978) and Levinson (1983) are used as the methodology in the study. The research concludes with an outrage raised against the idealized society that is in fact inauthentic. The voice of this visit represents a high cry against all forms of inauthenticity that might exist in any present-day society.

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10.21608/opde.2022.249928

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Hoda Soliman

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Mohammed

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78

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1

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35739

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2022-04-01

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2022-07-20

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2022-04-01

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51

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73

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1110-2721

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2735-3591

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CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education

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An Appraisal of Dominance in Osborne’s "Look Back in Anger"

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22 Jan 2023