Man Equals Man

Main Ideas

• The plasticity of human nature, easily shaped by external circumstances and influences, where individuality fades and dissolves into the will of others and the collective mass.
• The dramatic clash between the individual and society, in which a person becomes a plaything of historical and social processes, deprived of a stable inner core.
• The unmasking of illusions about the immutability of human nature, exposing the myth of steadfast moral foundations, as a person can become anyone under the pressure of circumstance.
• Grotesque irony aimed at militarism and the depersonalizing force of war, which turns an ordinary citizen into a faceless part of the military machine.
• An exploration of responsibility and guilt, where the boundaries between good and evil are blurred, and a person's actions are determined not by inner convictions but by external demands and chance.