Angels in America is the story of WASP lawyer Prior Walter and those surrounding his life. Prior has just been diagnosed with AIDS, and his life crumbles over the course of the play while various subplots handle themes as diverse as McCarthyism, the Rosenberg trials, and religious prophecy. The play is a seminal work of the state of gay culture and closeted culture in middle-class America, as well as a unique look at San Franciscos's history.
The second part of Angels in America, Perestroika, sees Prior, a gay man with AIDS, encountering an angel while his lover, Louis, runs off with a Mormon man, Joe. The angel tells Prior that it's his job to put an end to human progress. The play continues the themes explored in the first part, with characters questioning their identities. It also adds a spiritual element, with the character of the angel, as well as a social commentary that suggests that humankind has a long way to go but can improve.
Part one of the play Angels in America, Millenium Approaches, focuses on the intertwining fates and overlapping storylines of two couples, Prior and Louis and Joe and Harper. Prior has just learned he has AIDs and is now hearing a mysterious voice while Joe, a Mormon, is struggling to accept that he's gay. The play examines identity and what it means to be gay, rich, or Mormon. It also offers a sharp critique of the early days of the AIDs crisis.
Why do gays travel to such extremities to live in a society where they live in denial about their sexuality Angels in America a play by Tony Kushner represents the the crude awakening of the reality homosexuals had to face This play not only represents the deteriorating disease of AIDS but it is also a dramatic play that critically gives an answer to thousands of Americans who lived a cruel reality A reality in which they questioned the difficulty in living in a society that particularity objec
Angels in America Everyone has his or her own personal faults in life Some are looked down upon more for their issues than others are Homosexual relationships are considered sacrilegious and unethical so much that we scrutinize persons having those relations We as a society should not look down upon individuals whose sexual preference is different from our own The 80s were a time of economic growth and global power It is also the setting for Tony Kushners play Angels in America In Kushners play
Acceptance Throughout Angles in America Angles in America by Tony Kushner is a drama that has won a Tony Award for Best Play The play as a whole is a compilation of two parts Millennium Approaches and Perestroika Throughout the play it is quite obvious that acceptance is a major theme amongst the main characters The characters go through different experiences that force them to make an acceptance Most of the characters are able to successfully accomplish this except Joe The characters face chal