Merrick’s life, the one character who is influenced most and goes through the most profound and personal change is Dr. Frederick Treves, an altruistic doctor who opens his hospital doors to serve as Merrick's sanctuary. During Merrick’s stay, Treves’ approach towards him and towards life itself shifts from somewhat Victorian and conformist to individualistic. The dynamic between Treves and Merrick in the earlier stages of their
which is abnormal, and usually accused of having the ability to threaten and destroy humanity. Perfectly, the film The Elephant Man emphasizes about John Merrick who has a disfigured appearance, and also is called a monster. Fortunately, Dr. Frederick Treves finds out about Merrick when he is wandering around the freak shows, and tries to examine and help Merrick come back to the real society. On the other hand, people have opportunities to observe and judge Merrick as a new phenomenon. In the connection
those with deformities until they take the time to actually get to know them. John was a man shunned by society because he simply didn’t look like everyone else. He was born with a serious case of Elephantitis and was said to look like a monster. Treves John’s doctor in The Elephant man by Bernard Pomerance goes on to describe johns features, “The most striking feature about him was an enormous head. Its circumference was about that of a man’s waist. From the brow there projected a huge bony mass
beings. His abnormalities did not even allow him to take a walk in the garden by day light as the common society looked at him with complete disgust. Although John suffers much, he manages to win a few hearts with the help of his ‘friend’, Dr. Frederick Treves, and when he was content with his life he commits suicide. In this story the darker side of society is witnessed and their utterly cynical behaviour is practiced on John, for one reason only – he does not look like any other normal human being
Bancraft. Preformed by David Bowie the rock singer in 1979 True story of John Merrick who lived from 1863 to 1890. He was deformed and had a head that was 36' in circumference. John Merrick and Dr. Treves are used metophoricly. John represents people and his deformities their uniqueness. Dr. Treves represents rules and conformity. Themes -the arbitrariness of existence, posed against a hunger for design. -the simple theme of miss judging people buy their appearance.
“A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’ ‘However’ replied the universe, ‘the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation’”~ Stephen Crane. Crane was the champion of the American naturalist movement. Following the Civil War, American authors had to adjust and react to the astounding amount of death that occurred. Authors began to write more realistic stories and started the Realism movement. The Realist authors who took the foundations a step farther created the Naturalists. Naturalists