{"id":1578,"date":"2025-11-05T21:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:18:20","slug":"there-is-no-tragedy-without-at-least-little-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2025\/11\/05\/there-is-no-tragedy-without-at-least-little-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"there is no tragedy without at least little comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tony Kushner\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Angels in America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a story which manages to weave two opposites together in a number of ways. For one, the combination of humor, something so light, against the tragic reality of the AIDS crisis and the suffering in the character\u2019s lives. Combining the two makes a much more enjoyable experience, even if it does occasionally tear your heart out, as all good things eventually do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In particular, the first scene between Harper and Prior is where this begins in ernest. With one dreaming and one on a drug trip, both trying to cope with their lives. Their circumstances in life are anything but comedic. However, the way they speak to each other, for a moment, leaves behind their misery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They aren\u2019t anything alike from what they know in the instance when they first meet, but it becomes clearer that they aren\u2019t as different as they could be, even turning to joke about it; Harper: It\u2019s terrible. Mormons aren\u2019t supposed to be addicted to anything. I\u2019m a Mormon. \/ Prior: I\u2019m a homosexual. \/ Harper: Oh! In my church, we don\u2019t believe in homosexuals. \/ Prior: In my church, we don\u2019t believe in mormons.\u201d (Kushner, 32) Their way of handling each other is met with something much lighter than what might be expected from two people in seemingly opposing paths of life, but they don\u2019t seem to have any issue at this moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They exist as two separate things, yet when looked at together, their struggles and joys merge into something that is easier to understand and see; a combination of their tragedy and comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Kushner\u2019s Angels in America is a story which manages to weave two opposites together in a number of ways. For one, the combination of humor, something so light, against the tragic reality of the AIDS crisis and the suffering in the character\u2019s lives. Combining the two makes a much more enjoyable experience, even if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2025\/11\/05\/there-is-no-tragedy-without-at-least-little-comedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">there is no tragedy without at least little comedy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}