Part 2: Act 5, Scene 1 Summary

The angel reappears in Prior's hospital room, dressed in black robes. Prior rejects his calling. Hannah tells him he has to wrestle the angel and demand to be blessed and released from his task. They wrestle, and Prior wins. A ladder of light appears, and the angel tells him he must ascend to Heaven and give the book back. He goes. The angel turns to Hannah, who is terrified. It kisses Hannah passionately, and tells her that "the body is the garden of the soul." The angel leaves, and, as it does, Hannah experiences an intense orgasm.

Part 2: Act 5, Scene 1 Analysis

Prior symbolically rejects and rewrites the prophesy. The wrestling recalls Joe's speech in Part 1 about the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the angel. The difference is that this angel resembles a woman - Prior refers to it...