Examine why Jimmy Porter attacks Christianity in Look Back in Anger.

In context, the play illustrates the way that in spite of the broadening of opportunities for university education, the old power structure based on "the old boy" network of school and family connections was still very much in place at the time. The old power structure was cynical and bent on its own perpetuation. The Church of England was as much a part of the Establishment as the politicians and also seemed out of touch with the everyday realities of the people. For Jimmy, and for Osborne, the answers provided by the Church were a simple bromide that prevented people from looking at their lives and their society honestly. The "Bishop of Bromley" who is quoted by Jimmy may be a fictional person, but his call for Christians to help develop the H-Bomb was not fictional. John Osborne found a form that captured the unformed mood and discontent of the audience in 1956 England and gave it voice.