Audrey Hepburn Research Paper

Did you yet “discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself and the other for helping others” (Hepburn)? This woman strongly believed in this and spent her life to help the others until the death which can be possibly caused because she forgot that she had another hand to take care of her own self. Despite her traumatic childhood, Audrey Hepburn was able to overcome the nightmare experiences through possessing strong morals and beliefs of her own and not only had a successful career as an actress but also became a well-respected Goodwill Ambassador of the UNICEF.

Audrey Hepburn was able to become a good natured person through all the struggles because the morals her mother had helped her to stay strong. Audrey’s mother, Ella van

Their constant collision plus the father cheating on Ella with the babysitter finally resulted divorce, which was a huge part of Audrey’s childhood. Audrey felt a really big gap without her father’s love as her mother was very strict and had troubles expressing her love. However, Ella’s beliefs in optimistic thoughts, desire and obligation strongly affected Audrey mentality. In the other hand, Ruston was a rule breaker with an impulsive personality and would rather let his daughter do whatever she wants, opposite to Ella. Both of them made good parents individually but couldn’t get along well. Ella’s way to cope with these problems was just to ignore them. However, Audrey didn’t agree with her mother’s escapism. Hence, she learned in young age to be balanced and independent by standing on neither side in her parents’ fights. Her parents affected Audrey’s mindset and life stances. Audrey’s uneasy childhood resulted to her to have a patient personality with deep empathy towards the others and the eyes of only seeing the positive virtues of the people. Her mother strongly supported the Calvinism which is the moral of

To make her childhood even more unstable, her father was an active Nazi supporter during the Second World War. At first, both of her parents began as fascists. Fascism is a political philosophy of the tendency of a right wing in the 1930s. Ella had far Jewish relatives and that could have possibly been how they were first introduced to fascism, which they ended up supporting because Hitler’s opinion was welcoming to the aristocrats of Europe, after being damaged from the Depression of 1929. Audrey’s father became anti-Semitism thinking that his failure in business was because of the Jews. Then he most likely joined due to his nature to go extreme. Ruston was a dedicated member of the Confederation of British Fascism. However, there wasn’t any history of his actions as a member. Rather than being thought that he erased his shameful past, it was suspicioned that he had done more confidential and critical missions. As mentioned before, Ella was a person who made quick decisions and wasn’t thoughtful. Ella wrote quite a number of articles about fascism on “Black Shirts”, bulletin of the Confederation of British Fascism. Not after a while she was discussing fascism, she all of a sudden moved on to the topics of materialism, spirit, salvation and others factors she believed in life. This proves her simple but strong willpower and beliefs. Ella soon dismembered herself as