The book Equus, gives its audience a deeper view on religion by
relating it to a series of scenes in the play. Religion as a whole is
mainly a person’s belief and what they do in life depends on this
belief. If, within a religion, a person is told that something is the
right thing to do then that person will try in as many ways as
possible to live up to this. Religion can mean anything anyone wants
it to mean and be anything they make it. It does not have to be
believed in by many people, it can be a personal belief of one person.
‘Equus’ proves that religion can be anything. Alan, one of the main
characters of this play, finds belief in horses. He worships them,
just as many people worship God, Allah and Buddha. He has strong
feelings for them and spends as much time with them as possible. Much
the same as strong Christians do when at church. But as the play goes
on, he starts to feel more than a spiritual love for them and becomes
sexually attracted to them as well. He has such an overwhelming
passion for them that he spends all the time he can with them.
We learn that the main causes of his actions in the play are caused by
his parents. His mother is a strong Christian and his father an
atheist. His mother had tried to educate him about sex but failed to
tell it with the correct details. She tells him that when he falls in
love with someone that that is the right time to have sexual
relations. But Alan took this literally and believed he fell in love
with the horses. His father on the other hand had not educated him any
better either. When he met Jill, a girl who worked at the stables
with him, this was the closest he had ever been to a real, human
relationship. When they go out together Alan realis...
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...hed the relationship because he was being paid for it, but
once they got closer and began to understand each other, and then they
both made an effort because they wanted to and not because they had
to. Without Dysart making Alan think that he wanted to talk to him
and get to know him, Alan may not have trusted Dysart the way he did
and then nothing would have been achieved, but in the end they made
their relationship work because they wanted to, which showed that they
both genuinely y wanted to share their feelings and emotions.
So in the end, Alan and Dysart had developed a relationship based on
trust and honesty, and that was extremely unexpected, and was a big
shock to the audience of the play and the viewers of the film. But
they connected with each other and felt they could talk and open up
their hearts and souls, which in the end helped them both.
the play. It looks at the person he is and the person he becomes. It
his life is morally wrong. This contributes to the theme or themes of the play
They had no trouble believing that, because Parris had called Reverend Hale, (known for his studies in demonic arts), there must truly be witchcraft within the town. The play progresses and certain characters begin to develop; here is a community full of underlying personal grudges. Religion pervades every aspect of life. ' A man may think that God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now.
to be holy men that are full of honesty and justice, but the play shows that
the main theme of the play. With out this scene in the play I don’t
it is with his death that we know the play to be a tragedy. He is one
motives remain mysterious and unknown much like his presence in the play. At the end
... of all time, with a protagonist that is plagued with indecision, but spurred by a desire to avenge his father’s death. At the time of the play’s writing, religion was by far the largest influence on the lives of ordinary people, and the protagonist’s defiance of God for most of the play could only end in tragedy.
...mainly to be something characters use and abuse in order to get what they want. Absolon forgoes piety for attention when he takes a role in the local miracle play in hopes of attracting Alisoun. Nicholas uses the Biblical story of Noah and the flood, and a false piety, to set John up so he can frolic with Alisoun undisturbed. And then, of course, there's the whole obscene religious allegory and symbolism in the story: the huge "Goddes pryvetee," or genitals, John hangs from his roof; the fart of thunder and cry of water that could allegorize Noah's flood; and the way in which Nicholas's God-role and John's fall play on the Fall of Man. As is true with love, the only character who seems to truly have faith in this tale (John) suffers for it in the end, appearing highly ridiculous. All of this adds up to a highly irreligious take on religion in "The Miller's Tale."
to further his own schemes. *Act One, Scene One is the most important because it
task of revenge that has been assigned to him. These four soliloquies are the backbones of the play, and they offer the
in by those who would cloak themselves in, and manipulate with, those beliefs. The play is
The two topics of religion and hypocrisy in the play go hand in hand. The overall play is intended to ultimately bring to light religious hypocrisy, but not to necessarily demoralize it. The play aims to make fun of religious hypocrisy, while hinting that it’s problem or flaw is the way it slanders and makes one question the grandeur of pure religion. Tartuffe’s character portrayal is made up solely by his outspoken and unapologetic displays of religious devotion. Through his actions and displays of religious devotion he gains Orgon’s trust and manipulates him into overlooking his family's wellbeing and overall safety. He used Orgon's want and need to feel close to God himself against him, which left Orgon blinded by ignorance and own self
The play, set in the 1600’s during the witch hunt that sought to rid villages of presumed followers and bidders of the devil is a parallel story to the situation in the US in the 1950’s: McCarthyism, seeking the riddance of communist ideologists. Miller sets this story more particularly in a village called Salem, where the theocratic power governed by strict puritan rules require the people to be strong believers and forbid them to sin at risk of ending up in hell. However, the audience notices that despite this strong superficial belief in God, faith is not what truly motivates them, but it is rather money and reputation.
It is the job of Dysart to find the motive of Alan's actions, but he