Wesker also criticized society and addressed social and political themes in his plays. Wesker focused on the lives of workers and the working class and this was reflected through his works such as The Kitchen (1959), which reflected the stress and conflicts of life behind the scenes of a restaurant. He introduced the life of the working class and how they suffer in their society (Drabble 1089Like Osborne, Wesker shared the tone of rejection. Wesker and Osborne are almost exactly contemporaries and share the belief that politics is a matter of emotional commitment. The Roots of Wesker, (1959) also introduces working class issues. Wesker represents a girl forced to find her own voice and the roots of her personal being underlines the effectiveness of feeling over political activism in Roots (Innes).