A Comparison between the Characters of Alan from Peter Shaffer’s Play Equus and Billy Bibbit from Ken Kesey’s Novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
In Shaffer’s, “Equus”, Alan is a young boy of 17 who has deep troubling issues. Alan keeps all these feelings to himself; he holds these secrets dear. In Kesey’s, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, Billy Bibbit is a thirty one year old voluntary psychiatric patient, and he too, fights with his demons. Both of these characters share similarities and differences relating to their mental state. They are both slightly broken and seem at a stalemate with life; both too scared […]
