Ending of Angels in America

I find the ending to the play to be very interesting. I have also be watching the tv series and it follows the book but seems to just give you more of the visual effect of what is really happening. I find it interesting how everyone is able to forgive each other but no on forgives Joe for what he did. Louis forgave Prior, and Ethel forgave Roy.  It is like why couldn't Harper forgive Joe? He was final honest with her, and what he did wasn't nearly as bad as what Roy has done his entire life. In the TV version you see Harper give Joe one of her pills. I think maybe Joe finally went off the deep end after realizing he could never find love.

Ending of Angels in America

The end theme of Angels in America is hope. Even though the story doesn't go on and we don’t see what the future holds it ends with the hope that there will be change. This change will not come fast and will not be easy but it will be a change for the better. Prior lives on in his Great Work. The Great Work will change the future. We live now in a world where everything is more excepted and we are living in that future the play talks about. Priors final words are “The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now you are fabulous creature each and everyone. And I bless you: More life, The Great work begins". The ending sums up that the earth will continue to move forward, people will begin to understand, life will move on and change will happen.

My interpretation of Angels ending

I think the reason Kushner excluded Joe from the ending was because he wasn't honest with himself. Throughout the play, Joe struggles to find out who he his and compared to the other characters he remains lost. We see this when he comes out to Hannah and his affair with Louis followed by him going back to Harper and pretending that he wanted to be with her. It's as if he tries to go back in the closet after coming out. I feel that Kushner wanted to sent us a message which is that you must be true to yourself or else there will never be a resolution for you.

KUSHNER'S PLAY

There are a few themes I find recurring in the play and I wonder what the common denominator is...

why is there a cross between religions and lgbtq, sickness and, how reality vs fantastical connect to relationships all together.

Punk Rock Feminist Documentary on Netflix: "The Punk Singer"

Hello class! So, his post isn't about "Fun Home" but I just watched a documentary that is beyond relevant the themes that we have discussed in class and the class assigned literature, especially the evolution of feminism and gender roles in history. It is called "The Punk Singer" and it is available to stream on Netflix. It is about Kathleen Hanna, a punk rocker and feminist activist and it explores her life with emphasis on the evolution of feminism, particularly third wave feminism. It taught me a lot I didn't know about the overlap between rock and feminism. Below is the preview:

Normally I don't watch documentaries but "The Punk Singer" completely changed my mind about them. Normally I wouldn't have picked this movie, but this class has been leading me to explore more feminist works of art that I regularly would not be drawn too. I honestly wasn't into any of this stuff until I took this class, but now my mind is like a hamster running on a wheel, the wheel keeps spinning even after we leave class. Anyway, Kathleen Hanna questions gender roles and patriarchy in the same way that Jeanette Winterson and Alison Bechdel do. She seems more fired up than Alison though, more like Jeanette? Her ideas and thoughts are definitely different. I enjoyed it. Anyway, if anyone chooses to watch the documentary (steaming on Netflix)  feel free to comment your thoughts! Enjoy.

My analysis of Fun Home

Bechdel's novel revolves completely around the themes of gender roles, homosexuality and fatherhood of course. I believe that creating this autobiographical novel, she is connecting all of these themes into one piece to show the actual complication of her childhood itself. She goes back and forth in time during the novel to show how and when she realized everything her life was about and how a lot of things in her life were different than other peoples lives. She didn't understand at the time what was going on and she wanted the reader to understand what she was going through in her own perspective if that makes sense to everyone.

FUN HOME

I was trying figure out back in the first chapter she says "would and ideal husband have sex wit teenage boys." Is she trying to say that her dad was a pedophile or that he was just cheating on her mom with men?