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With reference to either two plays by the same playwright, o

A. leaders were rounded up and shot by firing squads. The following year, Nazi policy took a sharp turn toward a harsher interpretation of Paragraph 175, sending thousands of gay men to concentration camps. .
             One of the main characters in Bent is Max. He is a homosexual and throughout the play we can see how the expression of his identity changes with the advice from other characters and events of the play. .
             Max lands himself in one of these concentration camps after picking up the wrong man at a club; Karl Ernst's boyfriend, Wolfgang Granz. .
             With Rohm dead it meant that gays were no longer safe in Germany. Unfortunately Max and his boyfriend Rudy are at the wrong place at the wrong time and find themselves running from the Gestapo until they are eventually found and arrested at a campsite in the forest just outside Cologne. The rest of the play centres on Max's time in the concentration camp and how his chances of survival are much greater if he pretends he is not gay.
             There are many factors in the play that influence Max's sexual identity, the first being the pressure from his family to be straight. Evidence of this appears on page 61 when max says "Queers aren't mean to love. I know. I thought I loved someone once. He worked in my father's factory. My father paid him to go away. He went. Queers aren't meant to love. They don't want us to." We can see from this that Max has almost lost faith in finding love with someone of the same sex and is a little ashamed of his sexuality.
             In the first scene we get the impression that he is very open about his sexuality and how it poses him no threat whatsoever. We can see this when Max and Rudy are discussing the events of the previous night. "Not a threesome. A twelvesome. You asked all of the waiters. All at the same time too. You were standing on a table making a general offer.".
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             This shows us how Max does not feel threatened by his sexuality and how he has previously thrown it in peoples faces.


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