Equus By Peter Shaffer: Character Analysis

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Influences can shape who a person might turn out to be and tend to either have positive responses or extremely negative ones. However, in Peter Shaffer’s Equus, Alan Strang, a troubled seventeen year old, has created his own downfall by responding horribly to the influences in his life. He commits a violently heinous crime due to his own deep, devoted passion for his god, Equus. Alan Strang’s impressionable behavior and vulnerable mental health all played huge roles in influencing him to commit such an atrocious crime. Such an act from Alan Strang appeared to many as something highly unexpected, yet it would have appeared predictable if his upbringing had been closely observed beforehand. His mother, Dora Strang, unknowingly aided immensely