Jim Morrison "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself— and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.
That's what real love amounts to— letting a person be what he really is.... Most people love you for who you pretend to be.... To keep their love, you keep pretending— performing. You get to love your pretense....
It’s true, we're locked in an image, an act— and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image— they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it— they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession." - Jim Morrison (1943-71) Jim Morrison Jim Morrison is often thought of as a drunken musician. He is also portrayed to many as an addict and another 'doped up' rock star.
These negative opinions project a large shadow on the many positive aspects of this great poet. Many famous authors influenced Jim’s music heavily. You must cast aside your ignorance and look behind the loud electric haze of the sixties music. You must wipe your eyes and look through the psychedelic world of LSD. Standing behind these minor flaws, you will see a young and very intellectual poet named Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison's distraught childhood was a contributing factor to Jim's fortune and his fate.
As a young child, Jim experienced the many pains of living in a military family. Having to move every so often, Jim and his brother, and sister never spent more than a couple of years at a particular school. Jim attended eight different schools, Grammar and High, throughout his schooling career. This amount of traveling made it hard for a young child to make many friends.
In high school, Jim had an especially hard time; "The only real friend he made was a tall but overweight classmate with a sleepy voice named Fud Ford ". Although there seems to be many negative aspects of Jim's child hood, many positive aspects did arise, as well. The traveling done by the Morrison family brought Jim through many different experiences and situations. For instance, while driving on a highway from Santa Fe with his family, he said he experienced, "the most important moment of my life".
In this essay, the author
- Explains that a true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself and especially to feel.
- Explains that real love is letting a person be who he really is. most people love you for who you pretend to be.
- Analyzes how people get attached to their masks, love their chains, and forget who they really are. jim morrison is often thought of as a drunken musician and an addict.
- Opines that the negative opinions project a large shadow on the many positive aspects of this great poet.
- Explains that jim experienced the many pains of living in a military family. he attended eight different schools, grammar and high, throughout his schooling career.
- Analyzes how the morrison family's traveling brought jim through many different experiences and situations, including an overturned truck of dying pueblo indians.
- Analyzes how jim morrison's estranged childhood was the root underneath his bizarre and eccentric personality. his strange sense of humor and sickness were just fractions of his intellectual mind.
- Analyzes how morrison's creativeness and infatuation with mad magazines led to the horrification of many. his wild imaginations produced hundreds of scatological and sexually explicit ideas in the form of pictures and make believe radio commercials.
- Analyzes how jim and fud's focuses were sexual, or scatological, but they were imbued with sophistication and subtle humor unusual for someone only fourteen.
- Analyzes how tandy was subjected to jim's 'tests' and his teachers suffered as well. his peers looked upon jim as the ringleader.
- Opines that jim's magnetism was becoming obvious. his peers mimicked all of his actions, but jim never led them like they wanted to be led. he forced andy to walk along an edge that hovered fifty feet above the ground.
- Narrates how jim's parents pressured him to apply to colleges, just as they badgered him into having his photograph taken for the high school yearbook. when graduation came around, jim decided not to attend.
- Explains how the instability and rootlessness of jim morrison's child hood helped build a character that later became the emptiness of this great poet.
- Explains how jim began drifting away into the infinite world of poetry. he also read lawrence ferlinghetti, kenneth rexroth, and allen ginsberg. young morrison was fascinated by dean moriarty.
- Explains that jim maintained a consistent 88.32 grade average with minimal effort, twice being named to the honor roll, and scored above average in the college boards.
- Explains that jim was greatly inspired by the writings of great philosophers and poets. he devoured friedrich nietzsche's views on aesthetics, morality, and the apollonian-dionysian duality.
- Analyzes how jim read rimbaud, kerouac, ginsberg, ferlinghetti, kenneth patchen, michael mcclure, gregory corso, and all the other beat writers published.
- Narrates how jim's senior-year english teacher talked about his reading habits, but the library of congress checked to see if the books he was reporting on existed.
- Explains that jim's studies brought him across many of the dilemmas of these great writers. the notion of poetry had now taken hold on the still young jim morrison.
- Analyzes how the alcoholic and psychedelic hazed mind ran the songs and lyrics of an unknown concert, which became the doors.
- Explains that jim morrison adopted aldous huxley's 'doors of perception' as his motto. his crave for knowledge was driven by his wondrous mind.
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- Jim Morrisonopinion essayI don't quite recall when I first heard a Doors' song, but I could safely assume that it was Jim Morrison wailing the tune "Light My Fire" or "Break on Through". After all, these two anthems are the foundations upon which the Doors' legend was built, and to this day remain the band's gems. But as I have come to learn through the years of reading about and scouring over regurgitated bits of information of this group is that they are so much more than a member of the genre of those 1960s bands who musically fell in love with drugs, love, and repetitive choruses. Gathering knowledge from a countless number of books, newspaper articles, and documentaries about the band's lead singer, Jim Morrison, has led me to scorn the drunken, obnoxious hippie identity that a majority of the public has perceived him to be some thirty years after his passing. There was a time when I shared these prejudicial views with the casual listeners, but it's been quite a long road to personally come to the conclusion that Jim was a poet who had something valuable to say when he was performing. However, a public misconception of Morrison and the Doors still remains, and will linger for the simple reason that we cannot re-live the late 1960s and become acquainted with this rock n roll icon. Thus, this very fact incited me to gain a better understanding of the legend that's been bogged in criticism for the last thirty years.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that a public misconception of morrison and the doors is still lingering for the simple reason that we cannot re-live the late 1960s.
- Opines that jim's publically constructed character was likened to that of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde.
- Opines that jim's death was a result of binge drinking, drugs, respiratory problems, and just about every other illness known to man.
- Analyzes how jim was led to his demise by the cruel surrounding we call our society. he couldn't take the pain anymore, so there was one surefire way to end it all.
- Explains that jim morrison was a unique, soft-spoken, shy intellectual who had an innocent wild streak to him. his stage mannerisms were controversial and contributed to the abrupt halt in his life.
1426 wordsRead More - Jim Morrisonanalytical essayI preface this paper by a consideration of why Jim Morrison can be discussed within the discourse of religious studies. I suggest four possibilities. The first is the place of religion in late modernity; that is, as individualized, subjectivated and deinstitutionalized. These factors contribute to the circumstances under which Morrison may be understood in religious terms because of the conditions they create. Religion may be deinstitutionalized (Luckmann 1967; Bibby 1990), but people are still religious (Chaves 1994). This enables religion to exist in other ways; one way is through dead celebrity. In an article entitled “Is Elvis a God? Cult, Culture, Questions of Method,” John Frow (1998, 208-209), after discussing the apparent failure of the secularization thesis,1 remarks, “ . . . religious sentiment . . . has migrated into many strange and unexpected places, from New Age trinketry to manga movies to the cult of the famous dead . . . we need to take religion seriously in all its dimensions because of its centrality in the modern world.” Further, religion as individualized and subjectivated (Hervieu-Léger 2000) allows people to create their own systems of meaning and transcendence. Dead celebrity, using Morrison as an exemplar, is one system.
In this essay, the author
- Argues that jim morrison can be discussed within the discourse of religious studies. the first is the place of religion in late modernity, which is individualized, subjectivated, and deinstitutionalized.
- Analyzes how gail hamner wrote that popular culture became subject to deification or spiritualization in the 1960s. benjamin wrote of a celebrity "star system" producing an aura that is distinctively religious.
- Explains that popular literature identifies jim morrison as a "spiritual figure." there were also jazz musicians, such as charlie parker, and ragtime musicians.
- Explains that religion has two influences on popular culture: focusing desire and forming a community. dead celebrity fandom promotes social cohesion among fans through pilgrimages and memorial events.
- Analyzes durkheim's notion of the "sacred" when situating dead celebrity fandom as focusing human desire. the sacred is defined and reinforced through religious ideas and practice that reflect a worldview.
- Explains that riddell (2008) analyzed morrison as a "religious figure" in the context of clifford geertz's (1973), "religion as a cultural system."
- Describes the four possibilities of religion in late modernity, scholarship on religion and celebrity, the way we think of and define religion, and riddell.
- Evaluates the paucity of academic literature on jim morrison, yet a reasonable amount of popular literature.
856 wordsRead More - The 1960'sanalytical essayThe 1960's were turbulent years in America, and Jim Morrison created an image of himself that stretched the boundaries of popular culture and entertainment. He was the first musician to truly live the creed of the moment, " sex drugs and rock and roll." Morrison's complicated lyrics, wild behavior, and personal charisma attracted many fans that worshipped him as a rock and roll icon. Morrision left them with a lot of great music and some very bad memories. Like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, he destroyed himself in the process of becoming a star.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how jim morrison's complicated lyrics, wild behavior, and personal charisma attracted many fans that worshipped him as a rock and roll icon.
- Explains that morrison's childhood gave little indication of the road he would follow. he was born on december 8, 1943 in melbourne, florida.
- Narrates how jim morrison dropped out of ucla and moved to venice, where he met pamela courson, a pretty california eighteen-year-old. they stayed together until his death.
- Explains that morrison's entry into the music scene was purely accidental. ray manzarek, a musician friend, read some of his poems and suggested that they form an impromptu band called the doors.
- Narrates how the doors first started playing at small clubs in l.a and gradually gained popularity. they had their first hit in 1967 with 'light my fire', which became a rock classic.
- Explains that morrison was bored with his music and performing, and a serious alcoholic. he moved to paris, where he became an artist. the facts surrounding his death aren't clear.
- Analyzes how jim morrison created a rock and roll blue print for fame and inspired the generation of delinquency. he continues to be one of youth cultures most revered heroes
- Explains that jim morrison's style of music is imitated by phish, widespread panic, and string cheese. the doors' songs are based on complicated lyrics with deep meanings.
581 wordsRead More - Analysis Of No One Here Gets Out Aliveanalytical essayIndians scattered on Dawn’s Highway bleeding, ghosts crowd the young Morrison’s eggshell mind. This is one of many crazy events showcased in the excellent, Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman biography about Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive. No One Here Gets Out Alive brings to light the exciting and intriguing events that occurred in the perplexing life of Jim Morrison, while elaborating on previously known events in grand detail. Jim Morrison was the frontman and lead singer of the late 60’s and early 70’s psychedelic rock band, the Doors, whose records have had a profound impact on the course of music history. This is a spectacular novel chock-full with unbelievably true stories about Jim Morrison’s life that will leave you wanting
In this essay, the author
- Opines that no one here gets out alive is chock-full of unbelievably true stories about jim morrison's life that will leave you wanting to know more.
- Opines that jim morrison's unhinged lifestyle and the manner in which it is told is an aspect this novel should be commended.
- Analyzes the hysterical storyline of jim's "miami incident" and explains how he was fueled by drugs and alcohol during his performances.
- Analyzes how the novel captivates with the grandeur of jim morrison's life and ponders the complexity of his thoughts and ideas. when the music’s over discusses the universal song of death.
810 wordsRead More - The Celebration Of The Lizard King Or Fake Heroanalytical essayJim Morrison is widely considered to be one of the most iconic performers in rock and roll history. Paired with the instrumentals of The Doors, his haunting lyrics and chaotic performance style struck a chord with audiences of the 1960’s and elevated him to “Rock God” status. Morrison undoubtedly lived his life in a way to live up to that title: in his short lifetime he was arrested a total of 6 times and most of his adult life was consumed by copious amounts of sex, drugs and alcohol. Of course, all of this indulgence only led to tragedy, Morrison was often prone to self-destructive and abusive behaviors. Oliver Stone’s 1991 film The Doors as well as James Farr’s essay “'The Lizard King or Fake Hero?”: Oliver Stone, Jim Morrison, and History
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how jim morrison's haunting lyrics and chaotic performance style elevated him to "rock god" status.
- Analyzes how the doors, directed by oliver stone, follows the rise and fall of jim morrison, played by val kilmer, and his band.
- Opines that fame seems appealing from an outside perspective, but we don't often think about the problems that plague jim morrison in the doors.
- Analyzes how morrison used drugs recreationally as a path to creativity and expansion of the mind. the band's rise to popularity offered him more opportunities to delve into hardcore substances such as cocaine and sex.
- Analyzes how the stress of celebrity life had a negative effect on those around morrison. he showed up late to rehearsals, recording sessions, and even live shows.
- Analyzes how morrison's narcissism was a product of his fame, and how he obsessed with his iconic "lizard king" persona.
- Analyzes how the idea of death captivated morrison throughout his life. the first scene of the movie revolves around death.
- Analyzes how morrison's self-destructive behaviors show how he is obsessed with the concept of dying. he is prone to take dangerous actions on impulse without an ounce of thought beforehand.
- Analyzes how jim morrison was tormented by the negative effects of fame and the constant thoughts of death looming over his shoulder. despite all of his internal troubles and misery, he will still live on forever.
1543 wordsRead More - The Doors Biographyanalytical essay... seen, done and drunk too much. He had lived life on his own terms, And now must pay for his actions. Death was closer and easier than returning to America, to the endless succession of stages it demanded. Jim Morrison passed away in Paris on July 3, 1971. His dying wish was to be remembered as a poet, and not as a rock star.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the doors were a band of creative energy, with most of the focus on jim morrison. his looks and talents clearly tell why.
- Opines that if it weren't for krieger, manzarek and densmore, jim's songs would never have made it off the page, into rehearsal, onto the stage, and recording studio.
- Analyzes how ray manzarek, robby krieger, and jim morrison brought the doors' songs to life. they were equal points of a musical phenomenon.
- Explains that the band got its name from the poet william blake. english author aldous huxley was inspired by blake's quote to title his book on mescaline experiences the doors of perception.
- Narrates how the doors and elektra became world-famous institutions.
- Explains that jim was influenced by the nineteenth-century poet arthur rimbaud, who advocated a systematic 'rational derangement of all the senses in order to achieve the unknown.
- Opines that morrison was driven to go all the way or die trying, the ultimate ecstatic risk taker. manzarek, krieger, and densmore's contribution to this state of creative bliss cannot be underestimated.
- Analyzes how pan and dionysus were gods of revelry and rebirth, and their songs invoked their strong passions. the doors offered themselves as a sacrifice to be torn apart, bleed, die,
- Explains that being a poet meant more to morrison than writing poems. after conquering america, he escaped to paris, home of so many expatriate artists.
- Analyzes how pam morrison used to tell a story from the earliest day of the doors. they were playing their first club, the london fog. jim raged with super human passion with an excellent performance.
1035 wordsRead More - Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin¹ Bob Dylananalytical essayWhen I was growing up, Bob Dylan was more of a name on paper to me than a person. I knew Peter, Paul & Mary's covers of his songs better than I knew his. My parents listen to a lot of folk music--Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, the Weavers, Pete Seeger, Woody and Arlo Guthrie--but somehow Bob Dylan never entered the mix. Even after it somehow filtered into my consciousness that he'd written these songs I'd known all my life, that he was a performer, he remained mysterious. Photographs always seem to show him looking down, away from the camera, an expression of brooding concentration fixed on his face. When I heard the original versions of the songs I knew, like "Blowin' In the Wind," I liked the covers better. I liked the melody and harmony. Dylan's vocal style was a little too slipshod. It wasn't quite talking but it wasn't quite singing, he slurred his words and ended lines before it felt like they were done, and his timing was off. But it's that ambiguity--clear as split pea soup, as they say--that keeps drawing me back. Like the lines that end early, leaving you with the sense that the important part was left unsaid, more is implied by Dylan than said straight out. I keep going back, wanting to hear more, hoping that maybe this time he'll finish that thought. Maybe this time I'll get it. But I never quite do. He's never appealed to me as a singer, but his style and character are unmistakable, his charisma magnetic and powerful.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that bob dylan's style and character are unmistakable, his charisma magnetic and powerful.
- Analyzes how the freewheelin' bob dylan album announced his potential and talent to the world, announced the arrival of folk music's "poet-prophet."
- Analyzes how dylan's lyrics on the freewheelin' bob dylan fall into two categories: the political and the personal. both songs centrally ask questions, using concrete images to communicate abstract ideas and concepts.
- Analyzes the technique of using images as a conduit for concepts on the political songs "blowin' in the wind" and "a hard rain's a-gonna fall."
- Analyzes how dylan's "masters of war" is the most powerful song on the album. it uses harsh imagery, but the dominant characteristic is anger, of the helpless rage that has no relief.
- Analyzes how dylan's personal songs have themes of moving on or traveling, nostalgia, and self-reliance, as in "girl of the north country."
- Cites benson, carl, dennis, the freewheelin' bob dylan, and friedlander, paul.
1308 wordsRead More - Like a Rolling Stoneanalytical essayProtest singer, poetic genius, and a song and dance man; Bob Dylan influenced both popular music and popular culture for more than five decades. Although often reduced to a nasally-voiced guitar player who cannot carry a tune, Dylan mesmerized a nation with his musical genius since the early 60s. His artistic talents posed opportunities for creativity in the music industry and proved that a singer does not need a beautiful voice in order to sing. The lyrics make the song. The voice of a generation, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan not only influenced popular culture in the 1960s, but he opened artistic avenues that transcend far beyond popular music, and into our hearts.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that bob dylan influenced popular music and popular culture for more than five decades. his artistic talents posed opportunities for creativity in the music industry.
- Narrates how hibbing, minnesota, was once a barren mining town in the 1940s, when robert allen zimmerman emerged from the frost-bitten state.
- Describes how zimmerman changed his name to bob dylan after his favorite poet, dylan thomas, and made his mark in greenwich village, new york, the epicenter of the folk music revival.
- Analyzes how dylan's intimate delivery contrasts the way songs are usually sung. his connections seem unusual, in yet open the world to both excitement and confusion.
- Analyzes how dylan's writing transcends that of any other songwriter. his perplexing word choices force the reader to decipher the greater meaning while stuck on the catchy tune.
- Analyzes how s conducted a multicultural, psychological assessment regarding bob dylan and his impact on both english and german-speaking fans.
- Analyzes how dylan's substantive lyrics give fans freedom and security for the world to open up to them. the labeled folk musician traded his acoustic guitar for electric instruments.
- Describes how racial segregation in birmingham ignited civil rights leaders to take charge and advocate for change.
- Analyzes how dylan's song blowing in the wind became the anthem of the civil rights movement, making him the apparent poster-boy for the left.
- Analyzes how dylan redefined the ways in which artists perceive their topics, and perceive society. he lowered the walls that limited lyrical and poetic content.
- Opines that dylan's transcendental songwriting skills have proven that a powerful message takes precedence over beautiful voice. everyone can extract significance from their lives to that protest singer, poet, and singer-songwriter.
- Cites eyerman, ron, and andrew jamison. social movements and cultural transformation: popular music in the 1960s.
- Analyzes the influence of bob dylan’s music on american and german-speaking fans.
1327 wordsRead More - Development And Demise of The Seattle Soundanalytical essayThe affects of Seattle’s geographical location appears to be an ingredient of the music created by these grunge bands, whether expressed blatantly or subliminally. Seattle exists in a corner of our nation and a great distance from more prominent cities, therefore, a sense of isolationism amongst its citizens is to be expected. Seattle is also subject to an unusually high level of precipitation, most notably rain, one (1) of the few things that the city may be regarded as famous for. An abundance of gloomy days certainly plays upon the psyche of the human attitude. Musicians of grunge bands appear to express this geographical condition in the manner in which they choose their topics for lyrics and deliver their music. Isolation may be cited as an influence in their music with the respect to the style in which they deliver their product, well practiced, yet unrefined because of their lack of hope for recognition. Unrelentingly dreary weather may be responsible for depression among band members that may well be reflected in their music, possibly accounting for their extreme volume (frustration and yearning to be heard) and crude lyrics (unpolished because they expect to remain obscure).
In this essay, the author
- Explains the "seattle sound", a phrase coined for music created by alternative-style rock bands based in seattle, is loud, honest, and borne of musicians that have experienced difficulty in achieving recognition.
- Analyzes how the affects of seattle's geographical location appear to be an ingredient of grunge bands' music, whether expressed blatantly or subliminally.
- Explains that grunge, like most trends or fashions, relied on commercialization to exist as such. fads exist unless mass-marketing of a concept or series of events to attain popular interest.
508 wordsRead More - What Are Friends For By Marion Winikexplanatory essayBy definition a friend is a person who provides assistance and support. We have different groups of friends for different purposes in our lives. Although there are many different categories of friends, Marion Winik author of “What are Friends For?” mentions that some of the more common groups consist of the faraway, work, family, and former friends (132). We keep our friends because we value their loyalty, communication, support, and dependability.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that a friend is someone who provides assistance and support. we keep our friends because we value their loyalty, communication, support, and dependability.
- Explains the importance of faraway friends in their lives. breanna and rachael were always coordinating their classes and working the same shifts.
- Narrates how breanna texted rachael to tell her that they had been pulled over for speeding and the cops found her cigarettes in the car. positive she didn't buy our story we continued on with our breakfast.
- Explains that communication is the key support in a friendship, but it is often lost. lack of communication along with life style change made them become friends.
- Explains that support is another valuable trait of friendship. yvette was the only one they could depend on to run the front office without flaws.
- Opines that a dependable friend is one you can put your ultimate trust in. their sister emma is the most reliable person in their life.
- Narrates how their sister convinced them that things would get better by going back to school. she was so dependable that she stepped up when others wouldn't. each group of friends brings something different to the table.
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