![]() ![]() Smith, a handsome man who is to take her to a village with people just like them and tells her that it doesn't matter why they were born the way they are, because "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." The doctor says goodbye to Janet as Mr. Janet flees before the doctor can have her sedated and finds herself surrounded by screens showing the Leader's face as he preaches about conformity. The bandages are removed during a speech by the Leader of the State and Janet is revealed to be beautiful, while those in her society are revealed to be deformed. Janet is anxious to see the result of her latest surgery and the doctor complies with her request to take the bandages off, while requesting the anesthetist to be present in case she gets violent. Bernardi that she would have to live among others like her should this last treatment prove to be unsuccessful. It is her eleventh attempt at looking normal in a society that regards her as ugly and since no more procedures are allowed after eleven, she is informed by Dr. Janet Tyler is lying in a hospital bed with bandages wrapped around her head. And this patient, Janet Tyler, patient number 307 is not just a woman, because this happens to be the Twilight Zone. In a moment, we'll witness the removal of those bandages and we'll see what's under them – keeping in mind, of course, that we're not to be surprised by what we see, because this isn't just a hospital. Miss Tyler was sent to live in a community with others "of her kind.You have been introduced to Miss Janet Tyler, who lives in a very private world of darkness – a universe whose dimensions are the size, thickness and length of the bandages that cover her face. How could the doctors have responded subversively to Miss Tyler's appearance? ![]() She did not want to accept any alternative to the empire she wanted to be the 'normal' that was chosen by the empire. Miss Tyler herself had a captured imagination. They question the conformist rules of the government and express that they see the true human underneath Miss Tyler's appearance. The seeds of redemption can be seen in some of the comments by the doctors. The Leader is heard proclaiming, "It is essential for society not only that we have a norm, but that we conform to that norm!" The empire established by the Leader and government ensnares people to think that conformity is needed to have an ideal world. The audience is to understand that the origin of evil is forced conformity (conforming everyone to have pig-like faces). The woman, Miss Tyler, is constantly exclaiming and pleading, "I want to be like everybody else!" or "All I've ever wanted is to be normal." It is finally revealed that Miss Tyler is a beautiful young woman, but 'normal' people have distorted pig-like faces. You don't see the faces of the doctors, nurses, and the woman until her bandages are removed at the end of the episode. In this episode, a woman is in a hospital receiving treatment in order to fix the condition of her face. ![]() The scenarios of each episode are said to take place in the 'Twilight Zone' meaning it is some kind of alternate reality or possibly a look into the future. The episode entitled "Eye of the Beholder" is episode six of season two. The Twilight Zone is a TV series that aired in the 1960s. ![]()
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