Heteroglossia in Sam Shepard’s Burid Child

Abstract

Sam Shepard’sBuried Childis oneof the most celebrated play in the Americasofthe mid 1970s and early 80s. It revolves around a family, where ethics and valuesisfast falling prey to theimmorality of magazine culture.In the play,Dodge and Halie the family heads are indulge in a never ending chaos arosedue to Halie’s illicit relationship with her son. Moreover, the membersare ever ready to demoralize and challenge the hierarchy of Dodge, who himself is the victim of alcohol and passive living. The drama moves around the disillusionment of the American dreams, which has shattered long before, even they could think of. In such a scenario of personal hatred and suspicion, the dramahas anopen ending that leaves the viewers to revoke their conscience. This was the scenario of every house-hold in the Americas, during the 1940s and 50s. Buried Child at the first glimpse is about a disturbed family, which of course it is; besides,is filled with secrets, incest, murder,and sin thereby engulfing heteroglossic faces of the emerging America, thereby depicting the deteriorating situation of American familial values.