Freak show

Social Impact of the Circus “Freak Show” Since it's humble beginning in the mid 16th century, the circus and “freak show” act has been entertaining and horrifying people to this day; however, in today’s ultra-sensitive society, how has the classic “freak show” evolved to be deemed acceptable and be used to promote acceptance and positive views of people with abnormalities, rather than viewing these people as “freaks”, as was the original purpose of the classic “freak show”? Popularized in the mid-16th

The media portrays adolescents in television shows as being rebellious, sex crazed, and unreasonable people. Freaks and Geeks, created by Paul Feig and produced by Feig, himself, and Judd Apatow, is a one hour TV show that aired on NBC from 1999-2000. The show centers around the siblings, Sam and Lindsay Weir, and their friends while they all attend McKinley High School. Freaks and Geeks is a show that portray adolescents in a way that the media doesn’t because of the lessons the characters have

Barnum, also known as P.T. Barnum, was an outstanding businessman from the age of 12. However, he was also an awful person. He did many things within his life including, the Barnum’s American Museum, the Jenny Lind tour, and starting the “Greatest Show on Earth”. The majority of things he did was for his own personal gain and was almost always detrimental to those surrounding him. P.T Barnum was a negative influence on american entertainment because he abused animals and people with disabilities

The film Freaks was released in the early 20th century by Tod Browning and it definitely caught the eyes’ of everyone because of its risky and unusual cast. The lecture notes state that the movie was pulled by MGM and was not shown in mainstream theaters until 1960 because of the negative reactions of the viewers. This film had representations of a mixture of class and disability that was not fit to be shown at the time of the early 20th century. Freaks illustrates disability mainly and at first

Singer, and songwriter Bob Dylan gave an insight on how he worked with a carnival, and talked about how the people who were in the freak show were displayed and exploited. Bob Dylan wrote a song about this experience working at the carnival called “Wontcha Buy a Postcard”. Though there is no tracing this song to listen to it or even what the lyrics are. Its known that this song exists because of the interview in 1962 with Bob Dylan, and since he talks about the struggles that the freakshow workers

When Todd Browning released the film Freaks in 1932, it was extremely controversial, for obvious reasons. Several of the ideologies and characteristics of the 1900s were presented in the film. The film Freaks reproduces ideologies regarding disability and gender in an extremely degrading way. The film Freaks is about a sideshow attraction made up of a wide variety of people. The people who make up the side show all suffer from some sort of physical disability. Some of which include Siamese twins

That morning when Eliza walked into school she felt strange and she knew that day was going to be different. For the past year and a half that she had been attending Adelphie Academy and not once had she wore flat shoes. The reason being, Céline; the queen bee of school who decided on the first day of term that she was going to be best friends with her. Consequently, that meant that she had to become someone else, someone who was constantly in the limelight. Adelphie Academy was an international

In “Hottentot Venus”, Parker conveys that an ethnic background plays a role in how American society sees an individual and how the treatment towards them may vary because they are people of color and with varying physique. The poem consists of a stylistic texture of sincerity that demonstrates the speaker’s feelings, how she is considered, and her positive outlook despite the unfortunate events that she encountered. The speaker sets an emotional tone to display that she is yearning for respect even

referred to as Sara, was coercively taken from her home in South Africa during the 19th century by American colonizers and promised a better life. Instead, she was displayed in U.S freak shows simply because her capturers and audience were curiously fascinated with her large buttocks and labia, in which she was presented as a freak of nature. Men and women from all over the country traveled to gaze upon her nude and exploited physicality, where she was denied of her language, which also contributed to the

Welcome to the Freak Show When you think of art, you’ll think of music, paintings and sculptures of art; but have you ever considered a freak show as an art form? Freak shows and human oddities have been present in society since the early 19th century. However, art itself has come naturally to humans beginning with the cavemen. Society should formally recognize freak shows as a legitimate form of art and expression. Art is the expression of human’s creative skill and imagination, typically produced