An Essay On Equus
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Equus is as complex as the human mind. Exploring psychological questions such as what does it mean to be normal, and should individuality be sacrificed for the sake of normality? Whilst propelling a mystery, crime story, and a psychological thriller, Peter Shaffer’s Equus examines the minds of ....
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.... the horse Equus with God.
Shaffer is expressing to his audience that taking away the atypical aspects of this boy would take away part of the person he is, part of the character he has developed and most important, the God he worships.
When Equus leaves - if he lives at all - it will be with
your intestines in his teeth...I’ll give him the good, normal
world...and give him normal places for his ecstasy...
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor it cannot
be created.” ....
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Word count: 710
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
