Peter Shaffer's Equus: Concept of Normalcy.

Title: Peter Shaffer's Equus: Concept of Normalcy.
Category: Arts & Humanities / Theater | Words: 771 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Peter Shaffer's Equus: Concept of Normalcy.

        "The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health, and I am his Priest."65. Dysart considers himself the chief Priest in a sadistic ritual of dissecting children from their essence. He is troubled by a nightmare in which he is a chief priest in Homeric Greece.'24. In the dream he wears a golden mask and is meticulously carving up and sacrificing hundreds of children in a very important ritual. The mask he wears is symbolic …showed first 75 words of 771 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 771 total…clones? Surely society cannot allow people to run around stabbing out horse's eyes. No, there must be limits to rules on normalcy and passion to create a reasonable society. There must be an equal balance in normality because 'it both sustains and kills'. "The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes" and it "is the indispensable, murderous God of Health."65. Normalcy is necessary for society as a whole and sometimes lethal to individualism.

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