MYTH AND INSANITY IN BURIED CHILD A PLAY BY SAM SHEPARD
Keywords:
мит, лудилo, породица, кодAbstract
An American family, along with the cultural and psychological aspects of its existence, is the main indicator that Sam Shepard employs, especially in this particular play, in order to illustrate that the ineffectual search of the identity emerges as a consequence of the suffocating ties with the incorrigible national identity. Myth, insanity, conscience, these are the elements of the great paradox that Shepard uses as a basis for his story of the transformation of the mythical pattern, barring in mind that the past has an enormous influence on the creation of identity itself. This paper illustrates Shepard’ s attention to show that the national myth is the one that fades away; therefore, the necessary step towards the discovery of identity, in this case the discovery of American identity, is the discovery of the essence of myth, notwithstanding the fact that insanity of it all could be both cultural and psychological phenomenon.
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