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This 3 page paper discusses the way the relationship between Molina and Valentin changes and evolves in the play “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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successful film starring Raoul Julia and William Hurt (who won an Oscar); as well as a musical. This paper discusses the way in which the relationship between the two main
characters changes during the course of the play. Discussion The play is carried mostly by the two main characters, Valentin Arregui Paz and Luis Molina, who are prisoners in a
claustrophobic jail cell in Latin America. A third character, the "Spider Woman" of the title, appears either in fantasy sequences or as an offstage voice, but it is the men,
and their changing relationship, that forms the basis of the plan (Nemeth). At first glance they couldnt be more different: Molina is a gay window dresser and Valentin is
a political prisoner, yet they are both victims of the same harsh regime. It would be easy to classify them by their immediately visible characteristics: gay pervert (hes in jail
only for his orientation) and Marxist revolutionary, but to do so reduces them from people to symbols, and they are much more complex than that (Tittler). Valentin is "too individualized
and complex for us to dismiss him so summarily. And like Molina, he undergoes a fundamental metamorphosis" (Tittler). He begins as a militant and evolves into a "sensitive, caring person
capable of sharing his feelings and thoughts on a nonjudgmental, egalitarian basis" (Tittler). He and Molina experience an almost complete role reversal (Tittler). Many sources have noted that Puig addressed
homosexuality in this book and in the adaptation for the stage much more directly than in his other works, and it plays a big part in the story of these
two men. Molina is not just a "typical sexual dissident," he is also an "individualized subject who identifies not so much with women as with the pervasive stereotype of the
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