The otherwise entirely silent scene contains only one line of dialogue, from Len to Pam: "Fetch me 'ammer. The remaining matching criteria are that Len surely felt a sense of personal responsibility since it was his child (disputed point) and lastly, there is a possibility that Len’s intervention would have caused consequences that he feared.

In a way, murder has been an experience which has helped both Pete and Harry to come to terms with themselves.

Scanning the costumes and scenography of the play I was reassured by the presence of retro design and costume. Unsettling as it sounds, Fred and his friends may be alternately seen as villains or heroes who destabilize society, depending on how you view their motivation for violence. Len witnesses a horrible crime but chooses, albeit subconsciously, to abstain from action due to a sense of loyalty to the attackers, his social peers. Interestingly, he may not even be aware of how this mechanism of the super-ego keeps his actions so restricted. But it may also have its origin in the primitive roots of the personality, still unfettered by civilizing influences, and so become a source of antagonism to culture.

This interpretation presents Len as a monster who cautiously deliberates while a child is tortured and finally murdered.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another”. This leaves one with a dilemma because if Bond’s interpretation of working-class lives is that they are disadvantaged then surely the answer is not Len’s acquiescence but rather a rebellion. They take time to adapt to the new situation, and most of them react in a rather conventional way; and although each one’s attitude may be designed to impress the others, they do not totally hide the concern they feel. Castillo offers a clever and convincing interpretation that Len “appears in Saved split into his passive (Len) and active (Fred) poles” (4). Pam’s negative attitude to motherhood is that of a burdened, single woman who is “stuck with a kid” (39).

Compared to the “strategic” bombing of German towns it is a negligible atrocity, compared to the cultural and emotional deprivation of most of our children its consequences are insignificant”. His character type was the major influence over his subconscious decision not to intervene, not to save the baby. Yes, Len looks steadfastly at the hopeless lives around him without flinching, but he also turns the other cheek on many occasions in the classic sense of not retaliating to provocation or insult. Please note that the play script is not reader-friendly since much of the dialogue involves short, often mundane exchanges.Sanderson identifies just one group of individuals who break this trend, and these are “moral rebels … those who show moral courage generally feel good about themselves. Castillo, there is an engaging analysis of the animal imagery in Saved which links to the previous remark on cavemen. Fred and Len's friends Pete, Colin, Mike and Barry turn up, as does Pam, who is wheeling the baby in a pram.

January 1st arrives amid lingering holiday indulgence, often leaving us with hangovers and half-hearted promises of change.

The answer appears to be the consequences to the intervention (Sanderson’s last point), whatever Len imagined them to be, outweighed the benefits of saving his own flesh and blood. However, reference to the sixties remained quite subtle – many of the costumes would not look out-of-place on the bodies of young men and women of today. Civilization pays no heed to all this; it merely prates that the harder it is to obey the more laudable the obedience.