Peter Shaffer's Equus: Concept of Normalcy.

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…clones? Surely society cannot allow people to run around stabbing out horse's eyes. No, there must be limits to rules on normalcy and passion to create a reasonable society. There must be an equal balance in normality because 'it both sustains and kills'. "The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes" and it "is the indispensable, murderous God of Health."65. Normalcy is necessary for society as a whole and sometimes lethal to individualism.