Tony Kushner's Angels In America

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The reading of the play Angels in America by Tony Kushner is a play about the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in America. It follows the story of a few diverse socio-economic background individuals affected equally by AIDS. The most emphasized theme is regardless of how much power and money or the lack thereof makes no difference. After further analysis of the text some facts are revealed about the author's real world surrounding the fictitious world of play. That information display the current society and its view of homosexuals and the AIDS epidemic. The society, however, was influenced by the politics of the era. A President that disregarded the epidemic, dismissing it as strictly homosexual community problem. Right wingers didn't accept

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