The Tragic Figure of Dysart in Peter Shaffer’s Equus

Peter Shaffer's drama "Equus" is like a real tragedy of a mixture of religion and adolescence, but raises doubts about the "civilization norm" of society. Alan Strong seems to be the most influential of the entire story, but the real tragic person in the play is Allen's psychiatrist Disat. Dysart was questioned about everything he accepted before and when he met Alan his whole life was thrown out the window. The tragic character definition by Arthur Miller and the traditional definition by Aristotle also apply to Dysart.

Peter Shaffer plays Martin Dysart facing the contemporary dilemma of Sigmund Freud's "religious problems". Listening to Ninean Smart and other religious scholars, we must briefly explain that religion was once a powerful force in human life, but now that we are needed again Objects of wasted cost. Freud believes he solved the problem, and Dysart is confused and uncertain. I do not think religious problems can be solved easily like Freud.

Peter Shaffer's drama "Equus" is like a real tragedy of a mixture of religion and adolescence, but raises doubts about the "civilization norm" of society. Alan Strong seems to be the most influential of the entire story, but the real tragic person in the play is Allen's psychiatrist Disat. Dysart was questioned about everything he accepted before and when he met Alan his whole life was thrown out the window. The tragic character definition by Arthur Miller and the traditional definition by Aristotle also apply to Dysart.

Plato once said that a man is a person seeking meaning. In the drama disturbing Peter Shaffer 's mind, psychologist Martin Dysart and his patient Alan Strang are looking for meanings. Allenstron chose the path of irrationalism to give him this meaning. He worships that a horse is a god, takes it out of a certain part of Christianity, and is in the shape of a horse. At first glance, Martin Disat is a wise man. He is a overwork psychiatrist who helps people restore health and reason. Dysart feels that his sense of sense is lacking in sense of meaning, contradiction as to whether his young patient, Strang, had that meaning, and whether he should "heal" himself or take him away from Alan I felt. Plato is an excellent rationalist who will be noisy about both personality. For Dysart, Plato will be further disappointed. According to Plato's rationality, understanding the world is the only way