Throughout the year we have been bale to make a connection with all of the works and I feel that the movie "Freaks" is no different. We have to realize what the author or director is trying to convey and question who the real outcast is. I think a lot of the literary works that we have read have also questioned the layout of our society and how we treat people. Ted Browning does this in great extent in the movie Freaks. Although society may of looked at the people in the film as being social outcast or insulting and disgusting to look at, they were actually the good people in the film.
The people that we may have seen as normal (Hercules and Cleopatra) are actually the real outcasts. They reject the circus family or what could be viewed as society. Because of their disrespect to people that they find inferior they end up being subjected to either desk or an even worse fate of the ones that they called "Freaks." I think what Browning was really trying to suggest that our true being is not judged by the way that we look on the outside, but the character and attitude that we display which comes from the heart. (Shawn Parkhurst, 19)
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