Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

In his play Angels in America, Tony Kushner uses Louis’ refusal to face Prior’s illness directly as a platform to address Louis’ overall inability to confront his own feelings, instead choosing to make them more abstract in an attempt to sound philosophical, allowing Louis to remove himself from the central narration, while still making the decisions that will best benefit him in the end. When raising the subject of Prior’s illness, Louis chooses to speak in the third person as though the event he is discussing does not directly involve him, allowing him to believe he is making a more subjective decision by pretending that he is looking at it from the outside. In doing so, he succeeds in inferring that he no longer needs to take responsibility…

Tony Kushner in his drama called “Angels in America a gay fantasia on national themes”, in which, the story focuses mainly on the characters: Prior Walter and Roy Cohn, who receive a definite time of living due to their illness called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDs. Initially, the news of their…