Treatment of Homosexuality: A Comparative Study of TennesseeWilliams’Caton a Hot Tin Roofand Tony Kushner’sAngels in America(Part–1)

Abstract

Brick Pollitt and Prior Walter are treated as social pariah within their own societies.Tennessee Williams’Cat on a Hot Tin Roofand TonyKushner’sAngels in Americashow how homosexuals like Brick and Prior are treated as socialoutcasts andtheir individualidentitiesin crisis.The play sheds light on Brick’s emotional and psychological disturbance.His internalized homophobia does not let him speak openly about his relationship with Skipper,where others viewhis homosexualityas ‘suspect’.Brick is in a position when he can neither accept nor denyhis intimate relationship withSkipper.Prior Walter is open about his relationship with Louis. Prior has been infected with AIDS and this new found infection is taken as a disease of the homosexuals acquired asaresult of their sinful sexual activities.TheAmerican society was not willing to acceptthe possibility of differentsexuality and gender identityof a person.Thisresearch tries to explorehow homosexuals are treated as socialpariahs by the people who follow the norms and standards of themainstream. No sexual identity is inferior or superior in itself.