I've been thinking further into how the men in Miss Andry's world, can be portrayed as freaks. From watching Tod Browning's controversial 1930s film freaks, I began to realise how the closer to reality, and the more relatable the "freaks", the more disturbing they become. A warped version of reality is more disturbing than something totally new.
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| Shlitzie the "pinhead freak" from Tod Brownings Freaks (1932) |
Miss Andry is trying to "fix" men, she has a love hate relationship with them. She hates them with a passion, but the passion in her hatred fuels her, and she spends all her time trying to create new men, presumably who will love her. Her relentless hatred for men has caused her to not see them as humans. in whatever horrendous way she is treating this men, to her it is just a game. This made me think of the sort of mix-and-match characters we would build as children. I added the head of forgotten WW1 soldier, a generic face- she sees them as all the same.
Another route I went down was that of diseases. Another reason she may hate men. I looked up female symptoms of STIs (and spared you all a influence map) and created these patterned men based on them. She wants men to experience the pain that women experience.
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