A Synopsis of Equus

Hester Salomon, a court magistrate, asks Dr. Dysart to help a boy, who is being tried on her bench, by taking him into the psychiatric hospital. Dysart complies and takes on Alan Strang, a seventeen-year-old boy who blinded six horses with a metal spike all in one night. The boy arrives at the psychiatric hospital, and when the doctor first meets him, all Alan says or does in response to the questions the doctor asks him, is sing commercials from television. Dr. Dysart goes to visit Alan Strang’s parents, Fran

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We learn that Alan had a job at some stables. Alan goes into convulsions at the end of his story that he tells the doctor. The next day Alan tells the doctor a little bit about the first time he met a horse. His father forces them to leave the cinema and wants to take Alan home with him. He wants to, but all he can see in his “God” Equus (a horse) when he is there. He takes her into his office and she breaks down over all of her distress. Frank Strang visits the doctor later and informs him about Alan’s religious doings. He talks about how Jill and him went to the cinema and it was the type of movie that there were only men watching. Dysart gives Alan a placebo to make Alan tell the truth and Alan believes that it works and talks. Then the doctor begins to see Equus and knows how the boy feels. The next day, the doctor hypnotizes Alan and makes him tell more about the first horse he met. k and Dora Strang and he finds out about Alan’s strange attraction to horses. He said that he saw his father there and his father was disappointed in him for going to the theatre.

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Approximate Word count = 452
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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