Chang and Eng Bunker, "The Original Siamese Twins": living, dying, and continuing under the spectator's gaze.

The phenomenon of Chang and Eng as spectacle did not cease even after their deaths, as others have continued to profit from their abnormalities and their normalities, turning Chang andEng not only into tourist attractions and book subjects but also using them as a literary symbol of unity or, to the contrary, as a symbol of discordant opinions warring within one body.