Dismantling Fabricated Reality in Shepard’s State of Shock

ABSTRACT 
 This paper investigates Sam Shepard’s States of Shock in which the playwright explores family relation during an international crisis, war. As male identity is noted as a recurring theme plays, examines masculine Shock. depicted play, Colonel and Stubbs, main characters struggle to negotiate their personal prisms. such, we explore this issue via lens social address primary constructs play. Although taking its setting café, events play transcend both temporally spatially through two characters’ battle for at war front lines. argue that where former promotes mythologies regardless suffering traumatized soldier, presents critique American myths