The unity of fragments- the suicide of Marilyn Monroe and the execution of Marie-Antoinette
The unity of fragments- the suicide of Marilyn Monroe and the execution of Marie-Antoinette
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) and Marie-Antoinette (1755-179) were of hugely divergent social origin – Marilyn Monroe being born the poor, illegitimate child of a mentally unstable mother and an unknown father and Marie- Antoinette being born into ease and security as an Archduchess of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Their ends were different too – Marilyn Monroe committed suicide alone and Marie Antoinette was executed before a mob. Marilyn Monroe was an exceptional personality and Marie-Antoinette was quite ordinary. Nonetheless, there are resemblances and parallels in their lives – from them a) being required to follow established rituals of compliance to b), as a result of betrayal and exploitation, their early and tragic deaths. The purpose of such comparative analysis with its concentration on difference and resemblance is to illuminate the consequences of the features of social formations and how such features can affect agency and circumscribe the lives and selfhoods of individuals. It is in these terms that I explore aspects of the biographies of two seemingly widely differing women
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Byrne, Jenny
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Byrne, Jenny
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Byrne, Jenny
(2014)
The unity of fragments- the suicide of Marilyn Monroe and the execution of Marie-Antoinette.
BSA Auto/Biography Yearbook 2013, .
Abstract
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) and Marie-Antoinette (1755-179) were of hugely divergent social origin – Marilyn Monroe being born the poor, illegitimate child of a mentally unstable mother and an unknown father and Marie- Antoinette being born into ease and security as an Archduchess of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Their ends were different too – Marilyn Monroe committed suicide alone and Marie Antoinette was executed before a mob. Marilyn Monroe was an exceptional personality and Marie-Antoinette was quite ordinary. Nonetheless, there are resemblances and parallels in their lives – from them a) being required to follow established rituals of compliance to b), as a result of betrayal and exploitation, their early and tragic deaths. The purpose of such comparative analysis with its concentration on difference and resemblance is to illuminate the consequences of the features of social formations and how such features can affect agency and circumscribe the lives and selfhoods of individuals. It is in these terms that I explore aspects of the biographies of two seemingly widely differing women
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