Many times have I been called a freak and never knew what it really meant. Or maybe you have called someone a freak, or looked at him or her funny because they were different. In this paper I hope to define what it really means to be a freak.
Webster says that a freak is," an abnormal person, place, or thing." Before we can tell normal from abnormal we must first understand what normal is. Webster defines normal as," conforming to a certain type or standard." " Free from mental defect." .
So when you call someone a freak, you are saying that they are abnormal and mentally defective. This is not a very nice thing to say to someone. It may cause the person to "freak out." According to Webster to "freak out" is to, "lose control of oneself under the influence of drugs or have a similar reaction without drugs." .
The jails and sanitariums are full of freaks. The people who were not able to conform to the norm. The people who have cracked under the pressure of society to be just like everyone else. These are the ones that we call freaks. The majority could consider any minority freaks. Anyone who does not think, act, or feel the same way that everyone else does is labeled a freak. .
Is this right? Is it right to label people in this way when all anyone wants is to feel accepted for who they are? If we were all the same the world would be a boring place. We would all dress the same, listen to the same music, and think the same way. This seems to be exactly what Corporate America and Uncle Sam would like to achieve. These, my friends, are the real freaks.
Is everybody ready for the Freak Show! ... This is the kind of humor that you can come to love when see the Freak Show. ... The Freak Show would be best described as "Saturday Night Live on crack", it is wacky, crazy, and you won't stop laughing until you have left the place. ...
In 1932, Tod Browning released, "Freaks," acclaimed one of the most controversial horror movies around those times. "The film features a cast of actual sideshow freaks, human-beings of every conceivable physical aberration. ... He was actually considered a freak himself. ... People who were disfigured were not respected among the normal population, hence the name "side-show freaks." ... I believe that this movie was so controversial to society because it was a true look on how the normal people view these freaks. ...
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In this essay, we are going to see some aspects about the curious life of this enterprising man and his museum of freaks and describe the important impact of his figure on posterity. ... During the days of Barnum's American Museum various types of freaks were commonly exhibited: tribal people (unknown races), and lusus naturae (people born with demonstrable differences), born freaks or people born with physical abnormalities like Siamese twins, and made freaks or people who do something to make themselves unusual like covering their bodies in tattoos and the novelty act which involved a...
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One type of superstitious person is what I call "The Magical Freak" one who believes that everything is magic. ... The most rare of all superstitious people are "The Physical Freaks," this people are infatuated with science and reasoning. This people are the total opposite of the "Magical Freaks." ... His world may seem much less interesting than those worlds full of spirits, influences, and mysterious physic powers, but to him the physical causes of things are every bit as interesting as the "Powers Beyond" are to the "Magical Freaks." ... The Magical Freak drives down the expressway prot...
I think Freaks is an example of experiencing all of the things that we fear with a little bit of comedy added to make the movie bearable to watch. ... I really liked the movie even though it was creepy as hell to see that many real life freaks in one movie, but I guess it fits the title very well. ... I think the fear factor that we get from watching the movie and real life freaks is that since they don't look normal we think that they might be demented. I really liked that lady that was trying to kill the midget and take his money turned into a freak herself at the end both spirituall...
