Doomsday

Elizabeth Rosen, while analyzing Terry Gilliam’s film Twelve Monkeys, argues that “being an End-time prophet is maddening; that is, by its nature, it jeopardizes one’s sanity” (Rosen 89-90). Kushner’s Prior Walter would certainly agree. Prior is quickly convinced he is going crazy during his dealings with the Angel. The first time he mentions the voice […]

Before reading Angels in America, the apocalypses we read about and discussed in class seemed to have at least one thing in common – the whole world was affected. From nuclear destruction to environmental degradation, there was always a sense that come what may, we’re all in this together. (Except, of course, Fundamentalist Christians. And […]

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America consists of two plays/parts—“The Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika.” This particular post is going to focus on the events of the first part rather than the second. In the mid-1980’s, when Kushner wrote this series, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) hardly a decade old, this virus and the debilitating disease […]