Grotesque Body

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In addition, the narrative of the film focuses on Will(Claflin) that may be seen as conventionally ‘grotesque’ as he is not abled body and relies on an electric wheelchair to move his body, as Bakhtin (2009) writes in his book that those who are seen as different or as other were of the grotesque body. Grotesque is linked to outsiders, especially in the medieval times, Bakhtin (2009) refers mostly about carnivals which was about tradition grotesque which involved becoming, changing, moving and essentially about two bodies becoming one. As well as, those with disability where used in carnivals as they were seen as fools as they embodied the idea of grotesque. The idea of the grotesque body is linked in MBY, in a beautiful scene when the two

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