These two scenes develop the play's theatrically innovative narrative style, exploring the relationships between the members of the Strang family and developing the core power struggle between Dysart and Alan.
Scene 5 - Dysart narrates a dream he had the night after seeing Alan, in which Dysart wears an Ancient Greek mask and presides over a series of ritual killings of children. He describes his high status, how the children are killed (by slicing them open with a knife and spilling their internal organs) and how, at the height of the ceremony, his mask slips. This leads him to be removed from both the ceremony and his position as high priest.
Scene 6 - Heather, to whom he has recounted the dream at the same time as he's recounted it to.....
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