The Elephant Man Essays

“The Elephant Man” by Bernard Pomerance is an intriguing and thought-provoking play that features Dr. Frederick Treves, a widely renowned physician who one-day encounters Joseph Merrick, a man with severe deformities, at a freak show and becomes fascinated with his case. He takes Merrick under his care and tries his best to help him feel ‘normal’ so to speak, stating “I believe that a man’s destiny lies in his own hands… and in our own case, the power of choice is very great.”(6) Treves is shown

John Merrick is a good man, who at times struggles with dealing with his deformities. In the movie, John is very respectful to the people in the hospital. However, he has moments where he snaps. “I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!” This is understandable, because he is going through something that none of us could imagine. Another example of this is in The Exhibition, when Treves recalls one of the somber conversations that he and Merrick had. “When I awoke

The movie The Elephant Man is about a man born with massive deformities on his body and face. They call him “The Elephant Man”, but his real name is John Merrick. A doctor named Frederick Treves, wanted to examine him so he removed him from the freak show and took him to the hospital. As the movie goes on, he takes care of John and learns that he is much more than just a freak show. Throughout the film, the director, David Lynch, conveys a theme of inner and outer self and uses motifs to reinforce

John Merrick the “Elephant Man”, A man with physical deformities so bad that people it would cause people to flee, scream, and faint at the sight of him. While his deformities drove people away and no one wanted to look no deeper he actually was a gentle and emotional person with an acute intelligence. John Merrick had a tragic life of ridicule and inhumane treatment; while John was Mr.Bytes he would endure floggings, starvation, terrible living conditions, and he would be displayed to the public

Today, people love to judge others, which has drastically affected our community as humans. In the movie The Elephant Man (1980), they identified John Merrick as the “greatest freak in the world” which resembles how people judge others’ today. This reslates to Buber 's “I/It” philosophy, because their first reactions when seeing John are “gasping” and “ooohing” at him which is a reaction people reserve for objects and not people. This “I/It I/Thou” philosophy is on display throughout the film

but it had supercharged theirs, unleashing a cascade of chemicals that sent all six to the hospital. Several of the men suffered permanent organ damage, and one man’s head swelled up so horrible that British tabloids refer to the case as the ‘elephant man trial.’” TGN

Erving Goffman is a twentieth century micro-sociologists. His dramaturgical approach is tied to symbol interactionism; a framework that states people develop symbolic meaning and rely on them for interaction. He looked at how face-to-face interactions build up to the human experience (Kivisto and Pittman). Goffman’s main argument in the dramaturgical approach is that we are all actors and we can change and manipulate how we are perceived through ‘sign vehicles’, just as actors in a theatre do. In

The play that I went and saw was The Elephant Man at the City Lights Theatre Company. The playwright of this play is Bernard Pomerance and it was directed by Lisa Mallette. This play portrays the reality of cruel things that some people face from others and how awful they are treated when they are suffering a physical deformity. The main characters of the play are John Merrick, who is the elephant man, Dr. Frederick Treves, and Mrs. Kendal. Because of the English accent the characters had, I

To me, the most ambitious person I can think of is Joseph Merrick, more commonly known as ‘The Elephant Man’. He may not have made great inventions that contributed to the world, or saved anybody 's life. On the contrary, Joseph Merrick made some people 's lives harder, he was in simple terms a living, breathing, talking eyesore, and a burden to most. He suffered greatly from Proteus Syndrome; this caused him to grow more skin than the average person, unusual bone growth, along with the formation

MR Bytes The static characters in the film The Elephant Man is Mr Bytes the sideshow manager in the carnival. He does not change throughout the whole movie because he did not understand,wanted to just make money,he is the owner of a sideshow in the carnival. Mr Bytes does not understand what Joseph Merrick was going throughout his whole life. He just looked at him like a monster.Mr Bytes only care about his self. That why he dose not take car of Joseph when he is with him in the carnival.When

basis of many if not all of his works. It is certainly evident in films such as Eraserhead and the Elephant Man that this dreary and desolate setting is taken from such eras in cinematic history as German Expressionist cinema. Even though the Elephant man and Eraserhead would be catagorised as being visually inspired by German Expressionism, they hold their differences aesthetically. The Elephant man is quite tame in a Lynchian sense seeing that it 's so straightforward in it 's story telling and

I believe in the story of the Elephant Man the theme is don't judge a book by it's cover, because when comparing the Elephant Man to how he is portrayed and how he really is as a person it really makes you think, because how he looks and his reputation leads you to believe he is a ugly dimwitted off putting individual, when in reality he is very intelligent kind and gregarious, it's for these reasons I’m led to believe he is a good person and beautiful in his own way because how he attempts to cheer

An elephant is killed almost every fifteen minutes. From 2007 to 2014 the elephant population has declined by thirty percent (theivorygame). Over two-thirds of the African elephants have been lost due to illegal ivory trade and the number is not slowing (eagle-enforcement.org). Throughout the Netflix original documentary, The Ivory Game, the issue of elephant poaching is presented to the viewer in a way that invokes many emotions and sparks much passion about the subject. The movie follows a multitude

An elephant could drop at this very instant just for something on their face. In Africa grasslands this has been happening for a long time. "Most poaching is done by organized crime syndicates who use high-powered technology and weaponry to hunt and kill animals without being detected" (Gobush). That quote means that hunters use high quality weapons to hunt the animals with out being caught. If people don 't try to prevent poaching, the decrees of the animals will effect the environment, population

and shape of an elephant. One day, the blind men came to a zoo to resolve their lasted argument. The zoo Veterinarian led them to a tamed small elephant. The first man reached the ear where the other man attained the tail of the elephant. All men explored the rest of the body of the elephant because each one thought he got an answer for his burning curiosity. The men happily got back to their place and each shared the other what he experienced about the size and shape of an elephant. The one who reached

stalls in the middle of the desert with no food or water for who knows how long. Others had belonged to an owner that just did not care for them anymore and they became very thin and were very underfed. We had five horses a while back that belonged to a man that had them standing in stalls full up to their knees in their own manure. He payed very little attention to them and called them all “horsey”, instead of giving them real names. One of these horses was found in a stall surrounded by the bones of

Cage the Elephant is an American alternative rock band established in 2006 in Kentucky before they quickly relocated to London where they produced their first studio album and their first platinum record, “Cage the Elephant”, in 2008 with their hit single Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked. After reaching a certain amount of notability the band soon developed a real name for themselves and became known as a mainstream modern rock band. Three years succeeding their debut album Cage the Elephant released

and the rarest. Big game hunting is conducted in Africa,North America,South America,Europe,Asia and Australia. In Africa lion, Cape buffalo,elephant,giraffe and other animals are hunted. In europe,sheep,boar,goats,elk,deer and other species are hunted. Hunting of big game for food is now ancient, but thousand of years ago they used to do that.Early man hunted mammoth in groups, using a combination of spears or large rocks. They use a lot of types of weaponry to hunt those poor animals like for

The childhood dream of owning a pet monkey or tiger is a common one, but that’s all that owning an exotic animal should be: a dream. Over 10,000 exotic animals are trafficked into the United States each year, a multi-million-dollar industry on the black market. Owning a wild animal may seem fun and exciting, but with the ownership of such a creature, dangerous consequences follow. The ownership of an exotic animal not only puts the owner 's life at risk, but the animal 's and the environments. There

endangered animals this is very overwhelming as animals are an important part of our environment and ecosystem. With human population increasing at an alarming rate, with the growing rate of humans there is going to be less land for animals and plants, more man-made pollution and plastic debris will go into the oceans, lakes, and streams.