The concept of "Anger" in Fakir Baykurt's Yılanların Öcü and John Osborne's Look Back in Anger

Türkiye and England in 1950s witnessed many events that deeply affected the society. The economic, political and psychological effects of the events reverberated throughout the society. People living in various geographies and cultures experienced common problems and felt common senses during the same period. The industrialization that increased with the Second World War in Türkiye increased the migration from villages to cities. And village problems were brought to the cities. During this period, the neglected village life and villager gained importance. Yılanların Öcü was written by Fakir Baykurt in this period. As a social realist writer, Baykurt addressed the problems of the villages and the villagers. On the other hand, the unemployment and hardship experienced by the working class increased in England after the war and people felt hopeless about the future. The English playwright of the period, John Osborne, addressed this pessimistic atmosphere in the country and especially the economic problems of the working class in Look Back in Anger. They both were not indifferent to the issues of their countries and reflected the political, social, economic and psychological problems of their periods in their works despite writing in different literary genres. In this study Look Back in Anger by the English playwright John Osborne, reflecting the English society after the Second World War, and Yılanların Öcü by Fakir Baykurt, depicting the Turkish society of the same period, have been discussed from a Marxist perspective within the framework of the theme of anger. The fact that these writers produced their works in two different literary genres and in two different geographies with a common purpose and feeling has been a determinant in the formation of the subject of my thesis.