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This 6 page paper compares the plays Equus and Hedda Gabler, and argues that they are more alike that dissimilar. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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similarities are not apparent on the surface, but in the motives of the characters and their behavior. Discussion The plays are similar in that they both feature protagonists who are
deeply disturbed; in Equus both Alan Strang and his psychiatrist Martin Dysart are emotionally unstable. Strang is somewhat aware of his illness but is mostly so ill that he cannot
be objective; Dysart knows hes falling apart and is trying to analyze himself even as he goes to pieces. In Hedda Gabler, the title character is nothing short of a
monster, but she is so compelling that she tends to draw an audiences sympathy, not least because she doesnt see how very sick she is. In addition to the
emotional fragility of the plays main characters, each of them features an act of horrific destruction as its centerpiece. Hedda burns Eilert L?vborgs manuscript, in effect killing his "child"; and
Alan blinds six horses with a steel spike. The difference is that Heddas act is cold and calculating, while Alan is driven by a compulsion he doesnt even understand. In
fact, Hedda is a very unsympathetic character: she is self-centered and self-serving; she is contemptuous of most of the people she knows; she is a social climber; and she has
no respect for her husband or his scholarship, finding it and him both incredibly boring. She is a romantic in the old-fashioned, not Harlequin books, sense of the word: she
wants a world in which men worship their ladies from afar and are willing to die on the field of honor to protect their good names. She was born 400
years too late for the life she really wants; the life where Eilert could spend his days reciting poetry to her, sitting in the sun with vine-leaves in his hair.
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