American Literature

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This paper is based on two plays one by Tony Kushner titled "Angels in America" and the other is "Sticks and Bones" by David Rabe. The paper will analyze how the two playwrights portray the American Society in their own unique style and in what context have they depicted the American Society. "Angels in America" is a two part play subtitled "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika". "Sticks and Bones" is a depressing account of American involvement in the war.

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"David Rabe, another very important playwright of the American society gives us the story of David in his play Sticks and Bones. David is a young man, blinded and driven to the point of insanity by the horrors he witnesses on the battlefield. No longer able to fight, he is sent back to his family. Once he returns, he realizes that his whole family and the whole society seems totally alien to him. His family makes their disappointment in him evident and David becomes so disillusioned with his parents and his brother that he becomes reactive and lashes out at them."

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