Buried Child Sam Shepard Analysis

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Incest is wrong in every way possible and you can’t believe that it still happens and that it’s just in books, plays, poems. For example, Buried Child a play written by Sam Shepard leaves the family shatters the play along the story line and towards the end of the play he breaks the American family with no way to unite. Sam Shepard lived in the era where people did not show case their relationship in front of others. Furthermore, when you take the first step into taking a leap where everybody is hesitant, but Shepard took that step. Shepard face many problems when he wanted his play to be out in theaters but eventually people started actually understood all the mysteriously dark secrets Shepard hid under the audience eyes until the very end of the play, when every secret and relationship are revealed.
Sam Shepard has the talent dark humors and how incest was created as a shocking and inexplicable, but the audience laughs as it’s a joke. Shepard cares for people
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The environment and the past experience has made some people more open-minded than others. Many people still believe it’s very wrong to committing adultery and adultery can cause pregnancy which can affect the baby’s health. In today’s society, this is still a shame, but it was taken way more seriously in the 1970’s than the 2000’s and seeing adultery in Shepard’s play was shocking and bizarre that people laughed and didn’t really take it that seriously. In the 1970’s adultery was never common, and people probably thought it was nonsense and instead thought this is stupid and very entertaining but Shepard had a hidden messages throughout the whole play and while seeing the play it might have looked weird but that’s the specialty in Shepard’s writing, his writing skills have very secretive and mysterious messages that if people read each pages multiple times they can probably relate so many thoughts running through the readers

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