1980’s New York at the height of the AIDS crisis feels, within the context of the play, like the last days – the characters both fear an apocalypse and hope for humanity’s absolution. The supernatural elements of the play reflect this, with celestial beings struggling with the decision of mankind’s ultimate fate. On an individual […]
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Dimmesdale’s weakness is highly sexualized in that peculiar way that the Victorians and the eighteenth century Romantic poets were so endeared to. Dimmesdale’s description, with his “large, brown, melancholy eyes” and “mouth which, unless when he forcibly compressed it, was apt to be tremulous” evokes the sensitive, suicidal heroes of Shelley, who were eager […]
