Death of Marilyn Monroe

In a terrible turn of circumstances on the early morning of August 5, 1962, 36-year-old Marilyn died in her sleep at her Brentwood, California home with the phone attached to her hand. Rumors speculate of an overdose or intentionally killing herself. There was also speculation and gossip of having an affair with John F Kennedy and that she was about to go public with what she knew about JFK and Bobbi Kennedy. Also that she was murdered by 'government agents' to safeguard the president. Another conspiracy incident was that Marilyn was killed by the mafia as punishment to the Kennedy's for their attacks on them, and to expose Kennedy's many love affairs. Now with all the aspects of her death, Marilyn had plans to work on new movies and a possible

In the late 1950’s, Warhol began to have the interest in painting. He painted his first well-known paintings, which was based on comics, and ads he found in 1961. The next year the big spots lights came on and he had his big introduction on the Campbell’s Soup Can series, which changed him completely. Shortly after, Warhol got the inspiration and started working on a large variety of movie star portraits, including Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and the biggest of all Marilyn Monroe. Using screen-printing process, and knowing that Marilyn was one of the biggest deaths in a while, he decided to take that for granted and come up with this marvilent idea to make him go viral.

While today Los Angeles is prided on being one of the most diverse cities in the United States, there was (and still is) a tremendous amount of resistance that had to be overcome. Society’s inclination to maintain homogeneity along with the testing of loyalties and allegiance through pressures of war have proven great obstacles in the evolution of what is now a majority-minority city. Nina Revoyr’s Southland gives a historic fictional recount of Los Angeles’ most tested times from perspectives looking in to the past, present, and future. The discovery of unpleasant truths through grave social injustices provide a painful reminder of Los Angeles’ history and consequently a warning for future setbacks. Southland is an emotional testament to the inescapability of discrimination within stratified cities and the unspoken necessity of assimilation that occurs as a result.

“If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have gone anywhere” Marilyn Monroe once famously said. Over the course of the legacy unit we have learned about various figures that have left behind their own legacies, good or bad. Then we were tasked with the job of choosing a single person and doing the research about them. This was so that later we could write a speech and paper on what we learned and apply the writing skills we had been working on. Marilyn Monroe stood out due to the fact that she was a good person who struggled with the darker parts of herself progressively as her life went on. Nevertheless, she still managed to achieve her dreams and inspire others to attain theirs as well.

Poetry has a way of expressing its rage, grief, and irony at society and its social pressures. Although each poem is different, they can carry a similar message that resonance with its audience. Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy and The Death of Marilyn Monroe by Sharon Olds express how beauty weighs women’s lives and cause a tragic end from being the perfect specimen. Both discuss a similar theme but carry the message out a difference way. In order to understand its similarities and differences it is necessary to analyze the text to find its denotation and connotation. The poems Barbie Doll and The Death of Marilyn Monroe share the themes of death and beauty, and how beauty affects society.

The desperation and destruction continues to escalate throughout part I of the poem until it reaches a close at,

The famous Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bed but was it suicide? It was a murder that was unsolved at the time of the death and spread through the news to become one of the most talked about murder mysteries. Was it really a mystery? Through an enormous amount of research and the analysis and synthesis of the victim, crime scene, suspicious behavior, and evidence, it is clear that the murderer has been identified.

First, Margaret Fuller Slack’s loveless relationship with her husband is a main factor in her death. In the poem, Margaret Fuller Slack,

One of the most puzzling deaths of all time has to go to one of the top stories of the 1950’s. Marilyn Monroe “was the most celebrated woman in the world, a platinum-blonde bombshell who fought her way up from a troubled childhood to conquer Hollywood” (Baker et al. 1). As years pass, people still ask themselves what really happened to this platinum-blonde shell, was it suicide or murder? Such a question has been highly debated among both the public and modern investigators of the 21st century.

That is the thing with Monroe; she was a symbol, just a symbol. In her last interview with Life Magazine she said, “That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing—I just hate to be a thing” (57). Marilyn Monroe was an object for me to fantasize over. The relationship between Monroe and men summarizes what was expected from men and women during the 1950s. Women were supposed to be these ideal sex machines for their husbands. They were to be beautiful much like Marilyn Monroe. The ideal woman was a platinum blonde and of course white. Monroe was a movie star, but a movie star with no name, or no real motive in these movies besides being the blonde sex symbol. When Monroe’s personality traits were described in the reading about her the word “vulnerable” came up quiet a few times. That is the thing with the 1950s, sexuality was coming out more and more and it did not seem like such a big deal anymore, for heterosexual couples at least. Men were expected to love and want sex, and love and want sex with women like Marilyn Monroe. And women were expected to lookup to Monroe and be her husbands version of a

One of the things a woman wants most in this world is for someone to relate and/or understand her. Ever since I can remember, I’ve had that one person to look up to that I felt could relate to me. As long as I can remember, that person was Marilyn Monroe. At about the age of 5, I saw her face on the television screen and by about the age of 12 years old, I was researching all I could about her. The more I learned about her, the more my love grew for her and the more I knew she would understand me if she were here today. Marilyn Monroe was an iconic celebrity but also very relatable to the “average” woman who deals things such as tough emotional issues, harsh body image problems and having a hard time trusting people or building relationships.

It is no surprise that Olds picked the star as her focal point of her poem. She has expressed that a large portion of her poems reflect the “painfully ambivalent” memories of her parents (Gale). Olds style is also built on the intimate details of her life concerning her children, and controversially, her sex life (Poetry Foundation). It is also hinted at that she has suffered sexual abuse. Though not identical, Old’s can connect with Monroe’s bringing up, which is why it is no surprise she has picked Monroe as her focal point. Olds had previously commented on her style saying, “My work is not hard to understand because I am not a thinker … I write the way I perceive” (Poetry Foundation). This simply means that she writes what she thinks and what she believes needs to be said. This style of writing is shown in “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” by proving how men sexualize women in

The text, particularly illustrates this in the third line of the poem when she writes, “And feel once more I do not live in vain/Although bereft of you. (1916)” This line has a line break as a result of the author trying to show the silence that is briefly followed by vain, has a purpose and that purpose is to show grief in the tone of voice when spoken aloud. This specific type of line break is a syntactic, considering it is the other complete clause and it ends with a comma. If it didn't have a line break the sentence it would make (And feel once more I do not live

into the poem. The section of the poem that will be analyzed is the final ten lines (25-34). The

The poem by Emily Dickinson entitled the “The Last Night That She Lived” is about the death of a family member. The death was rather expected as it seems. The reason we know this is because the whole family was already gathered in order to be there when she passed. Dickinson was labeled as a dark and morbid writer in her time. In the poem “The Last Night That She Lived,” we get to experience the sadness, grief, and even spirituality of Dickinson’s feelings when dealing with her experiences of death.