Equus Chapter Summary & Analysis | Act 2, Scene 35

Act 2, Scene 35 Summary

Dysart comforts Alan, writhing and collapsed on the floor, by promising him that he (Dysart) will make Equus will go away, that Alan will be well again, and that Alan has to trust him. But then, as Alan sleeps, Dysart says (half to Alan and half to the audience) that he's lying. Equus will never really go away, and if he does it will be with part of Alan in his teeth. Heather, from the shadows, reminds him that Alan is in pain; and that taking that pain away should be enough. Dysart cries out that he may be able to make Alan pain-free, but he will also make him "Normal" (sic), able to function in the normal world "where animals are treated properly: made extinct, or put into servitude, or tethered all their lives in dim light ... I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside...
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