Equus (Act I - Scene 08)

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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
35	to murmur	to mumble, to say something very quietly	murmeln, raunen
35	frantically	desperate	verzweifelt, wie wahnsinnig
35	to strain	to work with your body	anspannen, anstrengen, beanspruchen
35	to tug	to pull sth.	schleppen, zerren, ziehen
35	to snap off	to go out, to break	abbrechen

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[Bearbeiten] Characters involved

• Alan
• Dysart

[Bearbeiten] Plot

It's night and Alan is lying in his bed. He has a bad nightmare, his body is shaking and he cries "EK" loudly a few times. Then Dysart appears at his bed and Alan awakes. They stare at each other and Dysart leaves the room.

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Alan cries "Ek; Ek". He means "Equus; Equus". Alan is dreaming of his master. His master comes in many nights and it's a torture for Alan. He knows that Equus can see him everywhere and he has no chance to flee. It doesn't matter if he is awake or asleep: Equus wants to control him and observes Alan's operations.

If you try to transfuse the character of Equus of a special person in Alan's life it's very similar to Frank, Alan's dad. He also wants to know, to control and to appoint everything in his own life and also in the life of his family. Frank doesn't like television and thinks you become stupid by watching it. He says, the television has to leave the house. He doesn't want to know what the rest of the family thinks about it. Also he wants to know everything about Alan's activities. But Alan doesn't want to tell him everything. That's normal. Teenagers need liberty.

If you look for a second similar person you can find Dora, Alan's mother. With her religious life she compresses Alan. A religion has many rules and especially for a teenager who wants to party, have fun and make sexual experiences, it's very hard to combine them with their life. Teenagers need their liberty.

Equus, Frank and Dora aren't prepared to give Alan these liberties.

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