Elisabet Snchez Gonzlez, Group B-4 1. Short plot summary (no more than 5 lines).

Angels in America narra la vida de un grupo de personas marcadas por los oscuros primeros aos del sida que causa estragos en sus vidas. Los hombres viven presos de la desesperanza, la religin parece no ser ya un refugio, y se dejan llevar por el desasosiego. Es una historia de amor, fantasa y destruccin fsica y espiritual.

2. Main theme of theatre play/literary work and other secondary but important issues treated in this work. Illustrate each theme or issue with a quotation from the text. a) Main theme & quotation La homosexualidad: Roy: [] homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. But really this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who in fifteen years of trying cannot get a puissant antidiscrimination bill trough City Council. Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. (1649) b) Other issues & quotations El sida: Henry: Nobody knows what causes it. And nobody knows how to cure it. The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus, the Human immunodeficiency Virus. [] (1648) La religin como gua para la vida: Monsters. Mormons. Everyone thinks Mormons dont come from homes like that, we arent supposed from homes like that, we arent supposed to behave that way, but we do. Its not lying, or being two faced. Everyone tries very hard to live up to Gods strictures []. (1651) La supremaca de la poltica sobre el ser humano y las tradiciones: Louis: [] there are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, theres only the political [] (1662) 3. Shortly state what has impacted you most or what you have learnt by reading this play. Choose a couple of short quotations to support/illustrate your answer. El uso de elementos fantsticos y de la imaginacin a lo largo de la obra para explicar sus reflexiones y pensamientos y mostrar diferentes visiones de la realidad. Harper: [] Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces for the world and reassembles them into visions [...]. (1645)

Prior: I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. (1644)