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 años del sida que causa estragos en sus vidas. Los hombres viven presos de la

desesperanza, la religión parece no ser ya un refugio, y se dejan llevar por el

desasosiego. Es una historia de amor, fantasía y destrucción física 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 religión como guía para la vida: “Monsters. Mormons. Everyone thinks Mormons
don’t come from homes like that, we aren’t supposed from homes like that, we aren’t
supposed to behave that way, but we do. It’s not lying, or being two faced. Everyone
tries very hard to live up to God’s strictures […]. (1651)

La supremacía de la política 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, there’s 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 fantásticos y de la imaginación 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)