The play "Equus", written by Peter Shaffer, creates a psychological thriller that explore deeply into the misguided intentions of religious Alan Strang. Alan Strang is playing as a seventeen-year-old boy that is repressed and forces to fit into a rational society. From the pressures of Alan's parents and his psychiatrist, they push him to the edges of his mental state. Alan's worship of horses comes from the beliefs in God of his mother, Dora Strang. She is very religious and tries to push Alan into religions. As such, his father, Frank Strang, is totally the opposite. He does not allow Alan to keep a painting of God in his room and forces him to replace it with a painting of a horse. Slowly, the horse becomes God in Alan's mind. Subsequently his worship of horses has become stronger and he starts to have rational needs with them; like sexuality and spirituality ecstasy. With the confusion of reality and his allusion, his psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, is trying to cure him by bringing his inside world out. The characteristic of the psychiatrist reflects the conflicts between ecstasy and rationality. Thus this idea is showing the example of Expressionism. The play allows the audience to watch these important moments which comments so heavily upon society, by creating similar situations where the role of psychiatrist and subject reverses and everyone is put on the crux of a breakdown. Dysart breaks down when he confronts with the reality so that he does not need to be associate with horses.
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