Overstepped The Theme Of Human Survival Paradox

This dissertation focuses on contemporary American playwright Sam Shepard's family trilogy: Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, and True west. The author considers that the keyword of Shepard's family trilogy should be"arrogation". Arrogation means"to make undue claims to having". These three works show enough explosive revolutionary, which reflects the style of Shepard's plays. In order to understand the subject of Shepard's plays deeply, the author would analysis the scripts from the perspectives of historical geography and social ethics. The author's view is actually threefold: (1)ethical arrogation; (2)identity arrogation; and (3)spiritual arrogation. These three plays give full expression to the spiritual connotation, and point out the reality of human being's destiny in an unavoidable survive plight.