a list of things someone should do to feel proud of. By violating both, the list that should do and should not do can result in feeling of guilt.
Kasschau states that ego is the thoughtful personality process that operates in terms of the reality principle 1995: 272. Part of the ego is conscious and it
corresponds to the self; ego obeys the reason and learns from experience.
C. Criticism
Buried Child is a winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, written in 1970s. https:www.dramatists.comcgi-bindbsingle.1351. Buried Child is part of
Shepards family trilogy comprising Curse of the Starving Class and True West. It is recognized as the fertile product of a playwright at the height of his
imaginative powers and the landscape he evokes, both physical and psychological, is paradoxically intimate and expansive - a world colored by fear, obsession and
prejudice, corrupted by complicity and lies and challenged by half-crazy states of the mind. Shepard draws his themes of family history, the quest for identity,
betrayal and loss from the mythology of the American West. Primitive urges and deep desires are a controlling force and the use of symbolism, dream-like use of
time and space, and ritual, especially which of burial and excavation, ascent and descent, heighten the drama. Buried Child, like most of Shepards plays, is
suffused with symbolism, which he uses to communicate deeper, though sometimes
ambiguous, levels
of meaning
to his
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D. Context of the Study
Buried Child is written in 1970s which is a decade of disillusion, cynicism, bitterness, and anger by examining it in the context of the post-war of the Vietnam
War and Watergate and the Cold War. All of them damage Americans faith in their government and their leaders. American society in the 1970s is also suffering
economic stagnation and recession; increasing poverty, decline in their standards of living. It creates confusion, frustration, and feelings that America has lost its
future that cause various economic-socio-cultural issues such as; increasing divorce rates, pre-marital sex, fewer women having children, couples living
together out side of marriage, recognition of homosexual lifestyle, rise in female- headed households, rise in drug use, rising crime rates, energy crisis, growing
concern about an environmental crisis, declining standard of living, increasing number of women working, more equality for women and Blacks, increasing use
of sex to sell products, and declining moral values in Christian. Those conditions create a certain atmosphere at the literature at that time
and they bring about influences toward literary works in their advances. It is a depressive condition but it never discourages the playwrights. They use the reality
of the society at that time as a unique foundation to make great literary works. This phenomenon affects Shepard to elaborate and transform the condition into a
play namely Buried Child. What actually described in the Buried Child is the real feeling which stresses the society at that time. These facts are inspiring the author
in presenting the play as a description of life at that time in his own way. The reality are viewed through his unique frame and then reflected in his works.
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