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'Analytical Analysis Of The Play Angels In America'

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Introduction The aim of this paper is to analyze the play known as Angels in America. This is a play whose focus is on the stories of two couples who are troubled, one couple is straight, and the other is gay couple: Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt and his wife Harper, and ‘word processor” Louis Ironson and his lover Prior Walter. The intention of the play is to show the struggle of identity, ethnicity and homosexuality therefore the essay is going to focus on the world of the play. It is a serious play about history, politics, death and spirituality (Kushner, 42).
World of the Play The play is based on the world of politics. Throughout the Angels in America play, one of the main points is that everything is politics. The play is not simply a political critique, but instead a political resistance act and a beacon of hope (Harris Ramsby, 412). While the play offers a harsh conservatism and Reagansim political critique, it is still utopian. The film’s first part does a great job of exposing issues of politics, while the film’s second part takes a more active approach in offering viewers with guidance towards possible strategies for political and social change. The play revolves around two type of marriages that is gay marriage and straight marriage, and the both worlds of marriage are troubled. After the death and burial of Louis’s grandmother prior informs his partner Louis he has …show more content…

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