Surviving Trauma in Sam Shepard's Simpatic
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This thesis titled "Surviving Trauma in Sam Shepard'sSimpatico" exposes the
traumatic demonstration of alienated, fragmented and disintegrated characters.
Simpaticobrings us into the world where high society meets the low life and of the
western's ethos towards the feeling of friendship and business. The western masculine
myth has been jeoparadized through shady past of Vinnie and Carter. The line
between the winner and loser is blurred, and the individual traumatic experiences
exist near to the theoretically correct than emotionally fulfilling "No one wins without
some body losing". At last what happens is less important than what was in the past.
Their trauma remains existential since the dismantle of boundaries between winner
and loser frames the whole identity. This is the spirit of Sam Shepard's plays.