Homosexuality In Brenda Chenowith's Six Feet

However, the church is not accepting of homosexuality. This is a correlation to the real world where this is still a major problem in religion today. David even recites Pslam 31:1 “In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: Deliver me in thy righteousness.” This is representative of the contradictions in Christianity- it says “let me never be ashamed” and yet David himself feels shame for being gay because of his own religion. Some even believe that David’s own struggles with Christianity reflects Jesus’s clashes with the organized and state-run persecution of minorities (McCabe, 2005). One other character who clashed with religion is Brenda Chenowith, she’s a self-proclaimed atheist and it is made clear multiple times that …show more content…
It’s as simple as that, everything that will ever be has an ending. The Fishers are constantly surrounded by death and each one of them has grown so close to it that they become deeply flawed and deal with their problems in a number of unhealthy and impulsive ways. Six Feet Under uses surrealism to literally let character speak to the dead. What they learn from those who have passed on is often that they regret the choices they made in life and that they had encountered suffering throughout their entire lives- and yet being alive is always so much better than being gone. Alan Ball had a series of questions that he aimed to resolve over the series “Who are these people who are funeral directors that we hire to face death for us? What does that do to their own lives – to grow up in a home where there are dead bodies in the basement, to be a child and walk in on your father with a body lying on a table opened up and him working on it? What does that do to you? (Ball, 2005).” Though the general public does not face death nearly as much as the Fisher family does, it definitely elaborates on the realization that life is something palpable and mortal that plagues much of our society …show more content…
They argue that the show is too dramatic and unrealistic and follows too many issues throughout the series to be believable (Nussbaum, 2002). Some people also believe that the show is depressing and doesn’t give the audience a break to breath from tragedy (Thomas, 2014). One after the other there is problem after problem and this may seem chaotic to an audience unprepared. Although there is a lot of drama throughout the show- it is only reminiscent of real life. In everyone’s lives there is going to constantly be problems and the show does its very best to address as many as it could while it lasted. Not only that, it manages to do so without being vastly depressing most of the time. There is plenty of comic relief throughout the series- in fact its genre is even labeled as a “black