“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.” ― John Hughes, The Breakfast Club
The three articles I have analyzed examine freaks in the society, the way people behave towards them and all the aspects of culture which are interconnected with these people.
The first thing to be understood is that society`s attitude towards freak people has changed a lot since the time when freak shows took place, where humans with physical deformities were shown to a broad public for the sake of getting money and giving fun. Nowadays, there are, of course, no such shows and the way society treats such people has also changed greatly, but this issue remains a problem.
Because of human stereotypical ideology, freak people are viewed now as objects of terrifying and individuals who are derelicts to the rest of the world. In culture, these people are shown as abnormal in the worst possible meaning, although usually nobody mentions their inner world.
After finishing reading these articles, I have realized that freak issue is of a very great importance, of the same importance as racism, the social class issue, and religion issue. In my opinion, such an attitude is just the kind of xenophobia, which forces people who are not alike others to become social outcasts. However, most of the people including researchers and writers choose to ignore this topic, which I consider being wrong behaviour as all the standards of human life and human rights, in particular, must be given to all the people in the same degree.
References
Robert Bogdan. "Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. "University of Chicago Press, 2014. Web.
Lillian Craton. "The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-century Fiction." Cambria Press, 2009. Web.
Robert Bogdan, Martin Elks, James A. Knoll. "Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric." Syracuse University Press, 2012. Web.
