... we as the audience can feel this whilst watching the film and slowly see our emotions develop as the film goes on to see past the person's disability. Disability was seen as a sign you sinned or done something wrong, therefore it was wrong to speak to that person or treat them as human. The stereotype of disabled people was to an extreme, apart from the usual, that a disabled had sinned, or it was seen as a sign of witchcraft and a disability was seen as a form of evil. I will discuss two major films, Elephant Man and Shrek to consider all the different stereotypes of disabilities. Elephant man proves this statement by creating a tension for the audience. The Freak show that is presented in this film involves many disabilities including the Elephant Man, and the audience is manipulated to think there in the audience of ...

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