Freak show

animals can barely move. They eat, sleep, and do their “business” in the same cage. Elephants and other circus animals eat large quantities of food and water on a regular basis, such as elephants drinking nearly 50 gallons of water per day. Circuses deprive their animals of these necessities so they won’t defecate on stage or while performing. Besides, circus animals such as elephants have almost the same type of lives us humans have, filled with emotions. Sadly as a result, animals do self mutilation to themselves such as banging their heads against their cages or pacing back and forth as a sign of distress. Animals do not use their intelligence to do tricks, they use it to survive. They make sounds that can be heard from miles away to show danger and many other signs. Consequently, animals don’t have room to stretch their legs and be free. Studies have shown that this can cause disconnect between the audience and the animals. In brief, circuses send the wrong information to the publicabout their animals. How many injuries are circus animals responsible for? They were responsible for around 100 injuries in the 1990’s. A concern, is that disease and infection are very common in circuses. Elephants can often carry tuberculosis(TB) which is a bad disease. It is easy to contract this disease since circuses allow the public to pet, feed, and ride on their animals, espeially children. Additionally, animals have a bad reputation of running loose. Animals have been know to run…

Analyzing the “Freak Show” Reebok’s Be More Human Ad Campaign Reebok’s television advertisement “Freak Show” begins with people doing various CrossFit recreational exercises such as flipping tires, running through mud, and climbing ropes while a voice over talks about being obsessive, fanatical, extreme, and crazy. Workout music plays in the background as well. It shows both mean and women around the age of 30. “Freak Show” isn’t just selling a shoe: the company wants us to believe that it’s…

Horror can be described as an intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust caused by something frightful. This emotion is one that is used by the film industry to their advantage, by shocking and frightening the audience into being entertained. 20th Century Fox’s American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the horror genre television show. The show premiered in 2014, and follows a struggling freak show in the 1950s trying to make money by acquiring the most unique freaks in town. The…

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…

American Horror Story: Freak Show begins its tale in Jupiter, Florida, in the year of 1952. To the untrained eye, Dandy Mott is the physical definition of beautiful, but underneath this alluring exterior is the epitome of excess wealth, and privilege taken too far to its detrimental conclusion (DeBussey, 2016). Dandy is an intellectual man-child, incapable of finding satisfaction in anything. The world is seemingly at his fingertips, and yet he is incessantly consumed with a gnawing feeling of…

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…

Charles Stratton P. T. Barnum discovered Charles Stratton in 1842 at the age of four. Soon after, Barnum transformed Stratton into General Tom Thumb, one of the most significant freak show performers of all time. At an early age Stratton was trained to sing, dance, and imitate famous celebrities worldwide. As discussed in the lecture, under the guidance of Barnum, Tom Thumb performed around the world as well as at the American Museum, becoming the most famous dwarf of all time. P. T. Barnum was…

Horror Story: Freak Show In class we have learned about many different aspects of disability. In American Horror Story: Freak Show (Freak Show), there were many themes shown throughout that touched on material we have talked about in class. Freak Show illustrates the medical and sociopolitical models of disability, uses terms that are deemed inappropriate or unacceptable by the disability community, and represents people with disabilities in the media. I have read several articles…

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…

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. One literary device Rodman Philbrick uses the reveal the theme of the importance of friendship…