The elephant man is treves own firsthand account of how he met and befriended joseph merrick whom he mistakenly calls john merrick, a young man. This is a play based upon the life of john merrick, the original elephant man who was so named for a repulsive skin. Discussion of themes and motifs in bernard pomerances the elephant man. He was first exhibited at a freak show as the elephant man. Jav id like to see the elephant man, please tat well, you cant. Its called the elephant man its talk about a ugly man and he looks like an elephant so they called him an elephant man.
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