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Plato and Equus
Title: Plato and Equus
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1048 | Pages: 4.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Plato and Equus
Plato once said that man is a being in search of meaning. In Peter Shaffer’s disturbing play, Equus, psychologist Martin Dysart and his patient, Alan Strang, are searching for meaning. Alan Strang has chosen the path of nonrationalism to give him this meaning. He worships Equus a God that he has taken from parts of Christianity and has assumed its form of that of a horse. Martin Dysart at first glance is a man …showed first 75 words of 1048 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1048 total…The Truth. Martin Dysart, his psychiatrist, is at a crossroads. Does Dysart follow Strang down the path of nonrationalism to find the meaning that he feels he is lacking or does he go back to rationalism? The play itself does not answer that question for us rather it leaves it up to our imagination. Plato would argue that both Strang and Dysart need to come back to rationalism to become healthy and happy once again.
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