I AM HUMAN BEING

Shaina 2022-01-26 08:03:34

Eine Geschichte eines Außenseiters. When talking about the difference and connection between Außenseiter and Sonderling in literature class, both terms refer to the odd person, while the former emphasizes the person's exclusion from society rather than his own abnormality. Elephant Man is different from ordinary people due to his natural deformity, and the joking or frightened stares and inhuman treatment around him even exclude this gentle and well-mannered young man from society: he escaped and was treated as an exhibit in the circus The gaze of the upper class has ushered in the gaze of the upper class; the gaze of the upper class is gone, and what can never be ignored is the ugly part and the painful expression of my own face reflected in the mirror - what am I? who? At the end of the story, facing the pressing crowd, he issued a declaration: I'm not animal! I AM HUMAN BEING! I am A man! From now on, he is no longer an elephant man, Elephant man, he is the first time back John Merrick.

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  • Dr. Frederick Treves: Am I a good man? Or a bad man? That's all...

  • John Merrick: I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!