Analysis Of Elephant Man

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The movie ELEPHANT MAN is a close pictorial representation of Erving Goffmans stigma that defines the situation of an individual who is disqualified from the social acceptance in a civilized society.
Being isolated right from his birth due to his permanent physical deformities made John Merrick (the elephant man) an inferior person and this resulted in his difficulty to meet and mingle with people. Later on in the movie he is freed from the capture of an old man who treats him as an animal by a doctor named Frederick Treves. The doctors treats him and tries get him acclimatize with the social norms. John Merrick goes on to build a rapport with the doctor and starts mingling with people
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