ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Roy Cohn, Manifest Destiny, Real Humans
26 Nov 2015
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Angel of history observes wreckage, always casualties that go with progress, so good that goes with bad. Angel of history powerless and can only look on in horror. In part two the wreckage accumulates, and kushner tries to stage this as the characters lives fall apart. Indebted to many other sources when he makes the angel in the two plays. Trying to push their ideas and do new things with them, Reworking the idea of the angel of history. Jonah and the whale, as well as many other biblical references. Problems piling up: aids, ozone layer depleting justice system dominated by the roy. What process takes us from doom and devastating to something different. Prior abandoned shortly after he finds out he has aids. Joe has to come to terms with his sexuality. Hanna leaves salt lake city and sells house.
