Control freak

Creon says, “Is it not arrant folly to pretend/ That gods would have thought for this dead man?/ Did they forsooth award him special grace,/And as some benefactor bury him”. Creon's new power and gaining more respect makes him rise against Antigone with new presumption. Creon attempts to shame Antigone because her views are different from his own. Thus making them invalid and irrelevant to anything important. Such interactions show his hunger for power and wish to control her ideas and put in plant his ‘correct’ ones into her head. Teiresias, the prophet, warns Creon about his mistakes, “No man alive is free/ From error” (1023). Creon doesn’t believe him and rejects any notation of it because he is so prideful. He also is told of his mistakes The Chorus later, “Too late, too late you see the path of wisdom” (1270). They address Creon, who is devastated and alone since his family has died through his mistakes. They summarize his actions and show how his fate came to be through this obsession with power and control. He was blind to instincts of humanity, suppressing them for the need for…

portraying the experience of disability. For that matter, representations of people with disabilities are often displayed in contrast to the ‘normal’ bodies in the film. This paper explores representations in the films Freaks (1932), The Elephant Man (1980), and The Theory of Everything (2014) to show how these films depict dis/abilty as reflected in the recurring narrative and representational devices of fear, pity, and admiration, which, in turn, reveal certain assumptions regarding the film’s…

“Tell me what you would do in case there’s an emergency.” Kelly was being anal retentive about preparation for the upcoming trip to Vegas by sweating each and every last detail. “Okay, for the twentieth time already. The list of emergency numbers is posted on the refrigerator, you gave me the check to pay the cable guy when he comes on Thursday, I’m ordering pizza for dinner tonight and your bags are just inside the garage door. Did I forget anything?” Ryan said exasperated. Kelly had…

first birthday. P.T Barnum had caught wind of the hairy infant and wanted her featured in his museum as “The Infant Esau”. … “The name ‘Esau’ was often applied to hirsute wonders and was in reference to the biblical grandson of Abraham, brother of Jacob. Esau’s name in Hebrew means ‘hairy’, and, according to Genesis 25:25, it is a reference to his hairiness at birth.” (Vikas 10) Annie had one of the most successful runs in a short span in the history of Barnum’s museum. He offered her mother a…

Tod Browning’s Freaks flings itself in-between the different categories of Terror, Horror, and Revulsion, sometimes splicing and mutating the different categories into indefinable, unrecognizable, terms. Browning’s aim for his film is not to clear anything up, using the themes of: us vs. them, good and evil, humans and monsters, etc. to create understanding or enlighten people; and it certainly is not a film promoting the message, “Freaks! They’re just like us!” His intentions, rather, is to…

As a result, circus animals undergo bad lives and terrible conditions. Circus animals spend about 96% of their lives in cages and they travel 11 out of 12 months a year. During travel, animals endure “extreme temperatures” in their cages because there in co climate control. Equally as important, circus animal trainers have and use brutal ways to train their animals to do tricks. The instructors use tools like whips, bats, electric rods, clubs, chains, hammers, torches, pitchforks and many more.…

The critically acclaimed show Freaks and Geeks is a shining example of a TV show that ended far too early. Freaks and Geeks was a show that captured the awkwardness of adolescence, as opposed to the romanticized and nostalgic view typically portrayed on TV. Shortly after Freaks and Geeks ended, a spiritual successor arose in the form of the show Undeclared, created by Judd Apatow, a producer of Freaks and Geeks. Where Freaks and Geeks was more drama than comedy, Undeclared was a lighthearted…

staying the same and one day have changed by my mother. She has done something and makes my family get better from the poor life. She changed my life for the poor life to a new life and now I can speak English, I can do everything from that I never have done before. Because of her my life have changed and get better from the past. In this novel, Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick uses the literary devices of characterization and dialogue to reveal the theme of the importance of friendship.…

your friends get to know who you are. When you’re down in life, you get to know who your friends are.”-Anonymous. For instance, in the novel Freak the Mighty, Max and Kevin demonstrate a strong friendship. Therefore in the novel, they were constantly there for each other, through the good times and the bad times. For this reason, a great friendship should include teamwork and cooperation, trust, and adventures that can’t ever be forgotten. Why does trust help make an enduring friendship?…

Freak the Mighty is about friendship. Both the book and movie of were marvelous experiences. Max is one of the main static characters the other main character is Freak. Freak helps Maxs believe in himself there are like Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket. Max and Freak have a struggled past, but that is what brings them together to become Freak the Mighty. Their are some similarities and differences I will tell you in the next paragraphs. In the book Freak the Mighty, Max says he remembers Freak in…