In ‘True West’ and ‘Fences,’ Sam Shepard and August Wilson, respectively, take up two mythic, symbols of American culture: the “Manifest Destiny” of the frontier west of the Mississippi River, and baseball, both of which, as ideas and practices, spring up in the nineteenth century and persist as dominant representations of the “American Dream” through the first half of the twentieth. Though both plays are certainly “about” other matters beside “The West” and “Baseball,” those two ideas have defined for many generations what “America” is all about. Discuss the ways in which each playwright weaves the respective myth into his story about America, starting with the title and carrying over into the dialog and the disappointed dream that each icon becomes for these characters.
Compare the idea of american culture in ‘True west’ and ‘Fences’ by Sam Shepard and August Wilson. More specifically the ideas of “Manifest Destiny” and baseball.
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