Marilyn Monroe: The Blonde Bombshell And The Sexual Revolution

Marilyn Monroe: The Blonde Bombshell and the Sexual Revolution

The notorious Marilyn Monroe is a single individual whose vivid red lips, platinum blonde hair, and breathy voice profoundly altered how society regarded sexual expression. Due to society's perception of gender roles, which is a result of stereotyping, Monroe was subsequently portrayed as an idealized example of female perfection. The characters Monroe played stood out because they were mindful of their liberties and wanted to change the world. Until her death in 1962, Monroe travelled the world and destroyed boundaries based on gender. Monroe was revered as a feminist icon long after she passed away and was known for her struggles against sexual exploitation and her aspirations

Her mother suffering from depression and paranoid schizophrenia had lengthy stays in psychiatric institutions and as such 12 days after Norma Jeane was born, she was placed with Ida and Albert Wayne Bolender and would remain with them for 7 years. In June 1993, Gladys was discharged from the hospital stay and took her daughter from the Bolender’s care. Norma Jeane followed instructions, but this would be terrible for the entire family and prevent her from being adopted by the Bolenders as planned. Norma Jeane's youth would be damaged permanently after leaving the Bolender’s care due to the poverty and suffering she was forced to endure. Months after Gladys had collected her daughter, she was placed back in the hospital, though Norma Jeane would never return to the Bolender’s care. Her legal guardian was now Grace McKee Goddard, her mother’s best friend. Her living environment was unstable and chaotic. The several foster families who took her in caused persistent trauma and instilled a strong fear of abandonment and insecurities that lasted Monroe's entire life. With the Bolender’s gone and her mother once again institutionalized, Goddard would now also abandon Norma Jeane and in 1935 she would be found in front of Los Angeles Orphan’s Home. “In her years as a starlet, Marilyn Monroe would treat her childhood like a Dickensian story involving a dozen or so foster homes,

In the portrait of Rose, the vamp is dominated by the sex bomb, and a dangerous and amoral woman is defeated by the beautiful one. Monroe undoubtedly introduced and promoted a certain type of femininity through the characters she