Freaks

ultimately about prejudice, discrimination and moral values being challenged to its fundamental core. The story takes place in Waknuk, a world in which everyone who is not normal are considered mutants and freaks and must be sterilised in order to preserve their pre-thoughts of God’s image. Those who are “freaks” are believed to be the work of the devil. Yet, the tiny percentage of aberration within Waknuk such as the Sealanders believe that the normal are now the primitive species and have to…

the symptom of and a cure to her obsession. Unlike “the psychiatric interpretation holds that witches themselves were insane” (Ehrenreich & English, 1973, pg. 9), Kusama, despite being diagnosed with mental illness and framed as abnormal, is not a freak that allows authority to eradicate her identity and contribution to the art community, but rather confronts the society with her overtly depiction of sex and decides on her own how she wants to be treated. As a result, Kusama produced and…

admired and a relatable figure to its following. Furthermore, “if the film’s devotees identified with the ‘holy killer’ in the first and second sections of the movie, by the third he presented himself as their savior – the champion, quite literally, of freaks” (Hoberman 99). Jodorowsky’s unique portrayal of this sub American hero greatly attributes to the movie’s cult following. Among all films, “El Topo presented itself as a spiritual initiation […] speaking at once to the counterculture’s love…

also categorized shoes into specific categories. Ever since then, I have been always looking for shoes that fit into certain categories that I like. Based on their look, I placed shoes in one of three categories: the Polished Legends, the Formal Freaks, and the Buddies. The Polished Legends are hands down the best-looking shoes out there. The shoes have an extravagant display of colors and all parts of the shoe design seem to flow effortlessly. These shoes are holy grails to the rest. I…

evolutionary ladder (Byrd and Tharps, 14). When slavery was abolished, blacks were still targeted as the savages of society, while the white men were presented as the civilized beings. This was repeatedly shown in advertisements, and other examples like The Freak Shows at Coney Island. They were important to the idea of the abnormal black body because “they served to institutionalize notions of disability as the ultimate deviance—thus solidifying Americans’ needs…

many examples of both internal and external conflict. One of the examples of conflict is the safety of the army of kids marching towards Buckingham Palace. The group consists of 53 kids but the main characters the story follows are, Arran, Achilleus, Freak, Maxie, Blue, Callum, Jester, and Ollie. These kids have to travel through downtown London in the midst of a war between kids and zombies. These zombies are a product of an unknown disease turning anyone over…

“Come and look at the freaks,” are song lyrics from “The Sid e Show” and that is what the play is about, freaks. The Siamese twins were called freaks simply because they were joined together by a piece of flesh. “The Side Show” was a very great play. Since it was a musical, I knew I would enjoy it. I do not think there was one thing I did not enjoy about the play. The reason I enjoyed the play is because the story about the freaks was very vivid and understanding. The actors, costumes, music,…

Leonid Fridman uses rhetorical strategies to acknowledge nerds in this passage. The main purpose in this essay is to show how most people do not wish to be educated in America. Nerds do not receive the same amount of credit as athletes. The author explains how nerds can become social outcasts. Some students study from five-eight hours a day and are “ashamed to admit, even to their friends how much they study.” The truth is that knowledge can take you so much further in life, then being on the…

“Lusus Naturae” is written in a first person point of view, in which the setting of the story is during the mid 1800s when modern medicine and faith clashed between one another. Atwood had developed the protagonist of the story as a young girl to a freak of nature. In the short story of “Lusus Naturae,” Margret Atwood suggests a theme of wanting acceptance by using literary devices such as foreshadowing and symbolism throughout the story.…

Labeling theory of crime alludes to the thought that people get to be degenerate when a freak name is connected to them; they embrace the name by showing the practices, activities, and demeanors connected with the name. Labeling theory contends that individuals get to be degenerate as a consequence of others compelling that personality upon them. This procedure meets expectations on account of shame; in applying a label of deviant, one connects a criticized personality to the named individual.…