{"id":17113,"date":"2023-04-25T10:41:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T10:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/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\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T10:41:29","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare the idea of american culture in \u2018True west\u2019 and \u2018Fences\u2019 by Sam Shepard and August Wilson. More specifically the ideas of \u201cManifest Destiny\u201d and baseball."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In &#8216;True West&#8217; and &#8216;Fences,&#8217; Sam Shepard and August Wilson, respectively, take up two mythic, symbols of American culture: the \u201cManifest Destiny\u201d 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 \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d through the first half of the twentieth.  Though both plays are certainly \u201cabout\u201d other matters beside \u201cThe West\u201d and \u201cBaseball,\u201d those two ideas have defined for many generations what \u201cAmerica\u201d 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.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;True West&#8217; and &#8216;Fences,&#8217; Sam Shepard and August Wilson, respectively, take up two mythic, symbols of American culture: the \u201cManifest Destiny\u201d 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 \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1176],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/17113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/17113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=17113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}