The performance was about a young 17 year old boy named Alan Strang and his journey and upbringing as a stable boy. Who, by blinding numerous horses by plunging spikes into their eyes, caused a question by many people why he was the way that he was. The play begins after the incident in a mental hospital were a psychiatrist named Martin tries to figure out just why Alan did what he did. Dr. Martin soon finds out that Alan formed his own belief about God and who he was. In Alan’s eyes his god was Equus, a horse. Alan lead a very secluded life and wasn’t able to experience much, and because of that, he was able to form his own beliefs and find strength in what he believed in. There was a lot of symbolism acted out on religion, love, sex, and parental figures. Alan has a religious and almost sexual relationship with the horses but at the same time feels distress towards them and has fear for them. Towards the end of Equus, you can see very clearly that Alan definitely held resentment against both of his

I saw this play as a real coming of age story. Alan, growing into his own and dealing with the mental anguish he had been suffering and the possible solution just at his fingertips. Throughout the play, there are obstacles and problems, but towards the end I got a sense of hope for this character. Alan needed something to help aid in his survival, and in his case, it was the horses, his strength that he did not posses on his own.

In Equus, everybody tried to interfere with Alan and make him aware of his faults, but to Alan no faults were visible. Nobody truly understood what Alan was thinking, they did not know what was going on in his head. They thought something was wrong with him. The boy was troubled, I seriously believe he was, but he was clear to himself and he made sense to himself. He was in his own little world and so certain it was flawless. Everybody that interfered with him and all that he was in contact with constantly felt strange and unfamiliar to him. I believe that so much can happen to people when they are encountered with another culture. Being in different comparative cultural classes, world civilizations and from my very own experiences, peoples views can be changed instantly, they can be taught, kept ignorant, offended, or reassured of them se

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