The Priest of the Normal and his Victims in Peter Shaffer's »Equus«
The Priest of the Normal and his Victims in Peter Shaffer's »Equus«

Summary/Abstract: My study on Peter Shaffer's »Equus« raises issues I believe to be central in the play, namely the debate regarding such concepts as: reality, normality, madness, civilization, truth, right and wrong. Shaffer merely needed a background to uncover the relativity of these concepts and of the modern reality itself. Reality has no substance, is an illusion, this is what Martin Dysart, the main character of the play, discovers. Therefore he chooses to make the journey back - with the help of Alan Strang, another key character in the play - from modern society to the purity of perception, leaving behind all conventions.

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