Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson. Mortenson came from her mother, Gladys Baker, misspelling the name Mortensen after Edward Mortensen whom Gladys claimed was Norma’s father. Marilyn has also at times gone by the name of Norma Jean Baker. Marilyn Monroe is the name Norma Jeane took on at the request of 20th Century Fox executive Ben Lyons. Marilyn after a 1920’s actress and Monroe after her mother’s maiden name (Taraborrelli, 2009, p. 115). When Marilyn refers to her own mother, she offers many details about mental illnesses that run rampant through her mother’s bloodline. Along with biological factors that include her grandfather dying in a mental hospital, her great grandmother dying in a mental hospital, and an uncle who committed suicide, she was subjected to slavery-like conditions and the many foster homes she was placed in. Her mother too died in a mental institution. With her family’s experiences with mental illnesses, it was almost certain that Marilyn would also have some sort of mental disorder. There is also talk of her grandmother, Della Monroe, attempting to smother her with a pillow in the summer of 1927 (Taraborrelli, 2009, p. 26). Marilyn does not remember the incident. Those who do remember told her about the incident. Whether the disorders were a result of knowing her family history or the unfortunate circumstances she endured in her childhood is almost impossible to know without a doubt. I believe her fragile mental state was the result of both. She daydreamed to escape life (Marilyn p.8). She was placed in orphanages on and off throughout her childhood. When placed in a foster home, foster parents seldom believed her if the subject of her complaint was the biological child of the foster parent... ... middle of paper ... ...ma to cushion Marilyn from painful circumstances. This may seem like a good way to shelter one’s self, but because of her family history this kind of coping can only lead to further problems. The more Marilyn calls upon Norma to shield her, the more likely Norma is to become a completely separate persona. The brain learns to “switch people.” When she allows her imagination to create an alternative to experiencing bad stuff, her brain will find switching people easier each time she allows it to happen. What she really needed was some good friends who could offer stable and consistent companionship. I would recommend a prescription for an anti-depressant. If she committed suicide, the appropriate anti-depressant may have been the thread she needed to hang on. Taking an anti-depressant may have given her enough of a boost to allow her to accept her past and move on.
Sid forgave her immediately and has not told anyone about her affair. She is the only one holding on to her mistake that is making her life depressing. In the text, it states “She wanted him to hate her right then. She wanted him to make her suffer, make her pay” (McCorkle 1069). Marilyn feels like she needs punishment for what she did, she does not want to let it go like Sid is doing. Sid tells Marilyn she is not that kind of girl “the times when self-loathing overtook her body and reduced her to an anguished heap on the floor” (McCorkle 1069). Marilyn has an understanding, forgiving husband that supports her through everything and she still cannot let her mistake from the past go. If she would just forgive herself and accept what she did to Sid, she could move on from her depression to live a happy
Some Like It Hot, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, and The Seven Year Itch are just a few of the movies that the actress Marilyn Monroe is known for. However the life of the movie star was cut short when she died at age 36 from an acute barbiturate poisoning. It was suspected that Marilyn took her own life, however she could have just as easily been taken out by the Kennedy family to prevent her from spilling all the dirty secrets she knew because of her alleged affairs with John and Robert Kennedy. Monroe was murdered by the Kennedy family in order to keep her from revealing government secrets that she gained knowledge of during the affairs she has with John and Robert Kennedy, which she threatened to make public after both
“Well, Alice, my father said, if it had to happen to one of you, I’m glad it was you and not your sister” (57). Even though Alice was the victim of the horrid crime, she had to stabilize her own emotions, so that she could help her sister cope with this tragedy. Throughout Alice’s childhood, Jane struggled with alcoholism and panic attacks. “I wished my mother were normal, like other moms, smiling and caring, seemingly, only for her family” (37).
There are many clues to lead to the fact she took her own life. I found it interesting Bobbie Ann Mason gave the character the name Norma Jean. Norma Jean was also the real name of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe’s depression and inability to find lasting happiness resulted in psychological disorders with the end result of her taking her own life.
Marilyn Monroe suffered from insomnia and from bipolar disorder. She was taking multiple pills to help her make it on a daily basis. Dailymail .com stated,”The actress famously suffered from severe insomnia and relied on a cycle of sedatives and amphetamines to help her function.”
In “To Set Our House in Order” Margaret Laurence, it conveys the message that alienation is self-inflicted on the character “Grandmother MacLeod” as a result of a tragic event. In this case alienation is used as a coping mechanism for the Grandmother who lost her son Roderick in the battle of Somme. In the story she tells Vanessa, “When your Uncle Roderick got killed, I thought I would die. But I didn’t die” (Laurence 94). This shows how she now avoids affection and emotion in fear of becoming vulnerable. In consequence the Grandmother is in a state of emotional withdrawal which is shown where it states, “For she did not believe in the existence of fear, or if she did she never let on” (93). By doing so she decides she is better off trying to feel no emotion which supports the fact her alienation is self-inflicted.
Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane Mortenson. A devious soul but a pure heart, a black past, but a bright future; she became one of the most idolized figures in society. Norma was definitely not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and she never sugar coated her life to the media. She was straight forward which made her heavily known for her quotes such as “I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.” (Marilyn Monroe). This was the beginning to her life story as a hero. This may not seem inspiring or heroic to many by the lack of knowledge a person may have on Norma. In the depths of her quotes lay a deep, heartfelt life though. For this quote may seem sensational and comical to the ear, but Marilyn was transferred to many foster homes not really having a parent that would show her the way. What a good role model would do though, and what Norma courageously has shown society, is that when life knocks you down, get up and hit life back twice as hard. Norma Jeane Mortenson, married Jim Dougherty, and started working. Soon she created the character Marilyn Monroe, she dyed her hair blonde, wore short dresses, and she became the momentous and inspirational character that everyone saw through television, newspapers, and photos. She was one of the greatest actors, singers, and models of the nineteen forties and fifties. But like every hero they suffer and create their own demise. Jeane, Marilyn Monroe, is a shakespearean tragic hero, because like every hero she must fall.
Norma Jeane Mortenson, who today is known as Marilyn Monroe, started life off rough, her mother suffered from depression and anxiety, she never knew her father and she was in and out of foster homes and an orphanage. Norma Jeane Mortenson was born July 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California (“Marilyn Monroe Biography”). At age 16, Norma Jeane married merchant marine, James (Jimmie) Dougherty on June 19, 1942 (¨Old Hollywood Spotlight: Marilyn Monroe¨). The couple then moved into a four bedroom house in Van Nuys. The couple were madly in love with each other. According to Cellania, Jimmie said, "We loved each other madly. I felt like I was the luckiest guy in the world." Norma Jeane once threatened to kill herself by jumping off the Santa Monica
Despite the media's depiction of a happy and glamorous life, Marilyn Monroe's Life was far from it; her addiction to sleeping pills and constant drinking made her paranoid, and her paranoia ruined most of her marriages and friendships. In the Marilyn Monroe Confidental by Lena Pepitone, Marilyn Lives a lonely life with only her seamstress to confide in, with her husband spending most of his time in his study and never having enough time for her; Marilyn's only company was her dramatic coaches, seamstress and her husband's parents.
Even though she has been deceased for more than fifty years, people today still are interested in Marilyn Monroe's childhood, love stories, and whether she died by suicide or not. ...
Monroe wasn’t feeling herself after she lost an important acting role due to she could not wake up on time and get to the set on time. In fact days before she passed away her physician gave her really strong sleeping pills (Marilyn). She had been under pressure due to the strong criticism she had been taking in Hollywood. Losing a role can be hard for an actor especially with talent like Monroe had. When she was unable to sleep Monroe had would take that sleeping pills in which would made her very weak and unable to work with(Monroe3). She had previously tried to take her life before. On the day she died there is a possibility that she took the medication by mouth throughout the day. They claim she took enough to kill 10 people (Tim3). After she died “Conor Thomas Noguchi found eight milligrams of chloral hydrate in Monroe’s blood and 13 milligrams of pentobarbital (Nembutal) in her tissue, both amounts well above fatal doses”(245). It’s strange how he found evidence of pills in her tissue and no needle marks on her
...en. Probably the most striking commonality is how women relate through those by which they are haunted: just as Marisa recalls her cousin Norma who was committed to a mental hospital, Alejandro's death seriously impacts Amalia; Mrs. Peters recalls her dead baby in an effort to relate to Mrs. Wright, and Mrs. Hale remembers the woman Mrs. Wright was before her marriage. Both Glaspell and Moraga explore the universal theme of isolation and how relationships can create, in the case of Mrs. Wright, or diminish it, as with Marisa and Amalia.
Marilyn Monroe was a deeply troubled woman and I believe that in applying a Psychoanalytic Perspective to her life, the first theorist that comes to mind is Erik Erickson and his stage theory of personality. In applying his theory we see that we can assess Marilyn’s personality through Erickson’s psychosocial stages of “Identity vs. Role Confusion” and “Intimacy vs. Isolation” (Friedman & Schustack 133-134). Marilyn’s childhood, the most critical time in any child’s life when any and all relationships are crucial to their healthy development proved to be the catalyst for her later problems in life as evident by the lack of any solid and
Norma Jean, most famously known as Marilyn Monroe was a famous actress in Hollywood that was one of the biggest sex symbols to come by in the 1900’s. Marilyn Monroe did not start out as an actress or one of the world’s biggest sex symbols, she began her career as a model. Monroe began work in a weapons factory in Burbank, California, where she was later discovered by a photographer. She was married to her first husband Jimmy Dougherty who was a marine. Jimmy had been deployed for some time and when he returned in 1946, Monroe had a fruitful career as a model, and she also changed her name from Norma Jean Baker to Marilyn Monroe in preparation for an acting career (Cinnamon,
Maslow’s Psychoanalytical perspective can be used to give an understanding of this part of Marilyn Monroe’s life. Maslow’s theory was developed and based on hierarchy of needs. Maslow wanted to know and understand what motivated people. His belief was that individuals are motivated to achieve certain needs (Feist & Feist, 2009). According to Maslow, Marilyn Monroe had some loving, belongingness needs and safety needs. Maslow believed that when people had their needs for love and belongingness in early years, they do not panic or feel devastated when they are rejected or denied of love. Whereas people who experienced love and belongingness in small doses, have stronger needs for affection and acceptance (Feist & Feist, 2009). This can be app...