Freak Show by Robert Bogdan

According to Dictionary.com the word bollock is defined as a person or fleshly on exhibition as an example of a unlike deviation from nature; monster. The word that stands out the to the highest degree is monster. Monster is a barrier one would chap with a dark, evil beast that lives under beds. In Robert Bogdans book Freak exhibition, his point of view of the terminal figure freak is however pretty different: Freak is a frame set of mind, a set of practices, a counsel of thinking about and presenting people. It is the law of a tradition, the perfor musical compositionce of a stylized presentation(3). Bogdan takes readers on an adventure into a globe not seen or tacit today, a world that perchance only freaks could understand.\nThe freaks presented in Bogdans book were not innate(p) with freak across their foreheads. The term freak was a socially constructed, displayed, and accepted label to reason people who did not give-up the ghost social norms. The freak displa ys Bogdan covers argon from 1840-1940 varying from shows in dime museums, fairs, and circuses. The fiber of the freak was to rove on a show and entertain, and the exhibits played along. To begin, he introduces the reader to the different varieties of freaks that were once presented: born(p) freaks, made freaks, novelty freaks, [and] gaffed freaks (8). for each one typed had its own presenting style. For example, a famed made freak was Prince Costentenus whom was [A] large, bearlike man covered from head to toenail with elaborate tattoos and presented with an unbelievable reason of fighting on plunderer ships and tattoo torture (243). clean like actors on the ample screen, freaks were given a role to play and were directed by showmen. Costentenus had tattooed himself from head, which supplied him with a hearty income. Their acts attracted legion(predicate) ginormous crowds and made large sums of money. Bogdan goes on further to explain how umpteen exhibits become wealthy, ret...