Abstract:
This study aimed to discover and explained the hedonism of the main
characters in Tony Kushner‟s play script entitled „’Angels in America‟‟. The data
sources used in this study was the play script of “Angels in America‟‟.
The writer used descriptive qualitative research method through Sociological
approach. Data were obtained by using the techniques of reading, noting, and
analyzing. While in classifying and analyzing the data, the writer used Weijer‟s
theory of Hedonism.
The writer found 20 data of hedonism which were devided into 2 types of
hedonism. The first type was hedonistic egoism with 10 data and the second type
was value hedonism with also 10 data. The findings also included the factors that
cause hedonism such like life style, personal problems, medicine, ego, and
homosexualism then the impacts which were medicine addicted, agression, being
out of control,egoism and illnes.