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Surrendering The theme of a work of literature is its central or dominant idea. Like a short story or a novel, a play is open to interpretation. The language of the text influences readers’ reactions, and audiences’ reactions are influenced by the performance on stage. An individual’s point of view to a story can reveal certain themes that may be totally different to the other person reading or watching the same play, short story, novel or movie. In the works of art that we were exposed to in this class there were many themes like surrendering, disassociation, which can be separating your self from society or something, words, words, words which is the lost meaning of words, and the difficulty of communication, World taught vs. Work of Experience, Free will vs. Determinism, and symbols vs. images. I am going to write on the theme that is most clear to me “surrendering”. I will start by discussing the play Equus. In Equus Dysart the doctor surrenders to his job by helping kids become normal to the point where they will be accepted by society like he did with A