Dana Moreira, “Beast”

“Beast” is identify as “An animal, especially a large or dangerous four – footed one” or “an animal under human control”. In many disability cases, people uses the word Beast to describe a human being that may have characteristic of an animal or get aggressive as an animal unlike others. Also, some human can be born or get in a accident and get deformed, which cause ignorant people to judge, laugh and criticized these people look. Society takes control of the vulnerable people and make them to a side because they are different from others. Moreover, society creates barriers between disable people who have different appearances and physical and refer to them as a beast. In the propaganda, it demonstrates people with different kind of discapacity, however, in a way for society to feel sorry, fear, guilty, upset and pitiful. For this reason, disability people are look in the street by others with sorry, abnormal, nonhuman and not as “regular” people. Any type of disability people get treated completely different by society and special which makes these people feel more weak, abnormal and disabled. Demonstrating sorry for a person and treat them different from others to frequently is not giving them the strength and enthusiasm, it cause for the person to feel useless. Furthermore, others that have to look forward a disability person with learning, physical or mental health difficulties aren’t patient nor capacity in changing their lives and push them forward to a positive attitude and accomplishment. In the article “The Elephant Man” by Sir Frederick Treves, the Film”Miracle Worker” by Helen Keller, the theory “Screening Stereotypes by Paul K. Longmore and the new york time article “hiring people with disabilities Isn’t Just the right thing to do – it’s good for business” by Elizabeth Picciuto shares the same interpretation of a “Beast” in a disability person.

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