id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5998 Angry young men - Wikipedia .html text/html 1901 199 71 Following the success of the Osborne play, the label "angry young men" was later applied by British media to describe young writers who were characterised by a disillusionment with traditional British society. As the Angry Young Men movement began to articulate these themes, the acceptance of related issues was more widespread. Alison remarks on this issue while she, Jimmy and Cliff are sharing an apartment, stating how "she felt she had been placed into a jungle".[3] Jimmy was represented as an embodiment of the young, rebellious post-war generation that questioned the state and its actions.[3] Look Back in Anger provided some of its audience with the hope that Osborne's work would revitalise the British theatre and enable it to act as a "harbinger of the New Left".[3] Publisher Tom Maschler, who edited a collection of political-literary essays by the 'Angries' (Declaration, 1957), commented: "(T)hey do not belong to a united movement. "Osborne's Angry Young Play". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5998.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5998.txt