Equus (Act I - Scene 03)

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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Vocabulary 2 Plot summary 2.1 Characters involved 2.2 Plot 3 Interpretation 4 Go to

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page	English	English explanation	German translation
21	file	folder, in which you can collect sheets with notes	Aktenhefter,-ordner
22	to consult	when you don't know something you can consult it, for example in a book; to look up	nachschlagen in
22	unperturbed	cool, relaxed	gelassen, nicht aus der Ruhe zu bringen
22	leaflet	a magazine with pictures	Prospekt
22	hostile	when you don't like s.o./something, you are hostile to him/it	feindlich, feindselig
22	appreciative	grateful	dankbar
23	catchy	attractive	eingängig, anziehend, gefällig
23	tune	a pleasing succession of musical tones	Lied, Melodie, Harmonie
23	ward	a division in a prison	Gefängnisabteilung
23	reluctant	you do something because somebody forces you to do it; not willingly	unwillig,widerwillig

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[Bearbeiten] Characters involved

• Nurse
• Dysart
• Alan

[Bearbeiten] Plot

In scene 3 Dysart and Alan get to know each other better. Both are in Dysart’s surgery. The psychiatrist tries to talk to Alan asking him a lot of questions, but Alan just keeps staring at him. After a while he begins to sing advertising songs from different commercials. He doesn’t stop until Dysart asks which of his parents will forbid him to watch TV. As Alan doesn’t answer this question, either (this time he keeps silent), Dysart ends the conversation and calls the nurse to bring Alan to his private bedroom, where he will stay for the next weeks. Going out of the room, Alan passes Dysart dangerously close. The psychiatrist remains fascinated.

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The third scene of act one shows that Alan is a very introvert person who doesn’t show any interests and doesn’t want other persons to know anything about him. The fact that he doesn’t react when Dysart speaks to him reveals that he doesn’t want to talk about himself. Inside of himself, Alan seems to be a little boy because he starts to sing commercial songs instead of answering the questions of Dysart. It’s like he did not speak the same language as Dysart. Also, he does the reverse of what other people want from him, for example he doesn’t sing the song which Dysart wants him to sing but the first one for the third time. So he does everything in order not to show his real personality. As he recognizes that Dysart is interested in him, he seems to be surprised. That shows that he isn’t used to stand in the focus. I think Alan is very surprised because Dysart is that nice to him. He hadn’t thought that he would get his own room without asking for one. The third act indicates that something changes in Alan because he notices that the people are not the same. In Dysart, he sees a good-natured person. Maybe this fact makes him change his mind about people in general.

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