Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Act III/Ash wednesday/Good Friday
The three reading all seem to tie into each other, many characters in Angels in America know of their sins, and are afraid to face them. They turn their back on their sins, and punishment. In Donne's Good Friday, Donne goes westward, when he knows he should be going to the east. However, he turns his back. Eliot also speaks of some of the same things as Donne, and act III. He speaks of hope, and looking back. Also of sinners. He knows he is a sinner, therefor he asks for people to pray for sinners like him at the hour of their death. This is greatly familiar to Priors situation. He is receiving messengers to help he get ready for his death, but he doesn't realize the real truth. It is his hour of death, his time to go is coming.
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angels in america,
ash wednesday,
good friday,
world lit 2403
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His ancestors actually tell Prior he is not dying.
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