Harper ou a Lady Macbeth da contemporaneidade

Abstract

Dan Vogel divides the American theater in three different masks: that of the devil, Oedipus, and Christ; reminding the reader of the christian origin of his country. Angels in America, a play from 1985, written by Tony Kushner, clearly does not deny its origin and puts the mall on stage. The phantom of the deranged and pained woman is literary encarnated in Harper, a drugaddict. Here, Kushner’s crazy woman is Vogel’s Christ. One could say that the solitude imposed on her by her husband and society is the image of her suffering, her crossis her madness due to her solitude, and her ressurrection, at the end of the play, is the moment she gets her sanity back. Indeed, Harper walks in the opposite direction as Lady Macbeth does, from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The first one walks from darkness to light, while the latter from light to darkness. This text tries to elucidate both characters as female figures in tandem with their opposite trails in the world they live in.