|| Marilyn Monroe - the new Elizabethan ||

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Marilyn Monroe. There is many things that made her become a symbol- her looks, her attitude and her actions. 

This post is going to be quite personal because to me, there won't be another Marilyn.There is a lot of aspects that if you look at them in detail, you'll notice similarities between Monroe and Elizabeth. The make up- always on point, and always the same. This has became Marilyn's brand. We still hear today people say "that Marilyn Monroe look''. If you think Elizabeth- you also think pale skin, red lips, rosy cheeks. That continuity when it comes to their image shown by the specific type of make up... 

Marilyn had a complicated private life, which included an affair with both John and Robert Kennedy. This made everyone speculate and talk about. If you think about the situation with Elizabeth, a similar thing happened with her and Robert Dudley, her childhood friend that she fell in love with- but no one really knew what was going on behind closed doors. 

Both Elizabeth and Marilyn grew up with out one of their parents. Marilyn spent most of her childhood in foster homes, as her mother was mentally not stable and financially unable to take care of her and her father was stated to be Martin Edward Mortensen. Elizabeth on the other side, still grew up around her family, even though her mother was executed on the 19th May 1536. Her father Henry VIII died 11 years later due to his obesity.

The photo above represents Marilyn very well. She was so famous and so 'important' in the media industry, yet she still managed to keep that image of a next door girl. The photograph that I decided to use however, shows her in a different light. A more expensive one. She is looking away...This could mean she is too good to look at you. Or me. Her mouth is slightly open. This shows how sexual she as a woman was... It symbolises the type of a person she was known to be- very feminine and sexy. Unlike most of Elizabeth's portraits, this photo doesn't have anything in the background... which I think is the modern way of making the audience focus on the talent instead of anything else. This emphasised the fact of how much they wanted us to think she was something special, "the one and only". She is also wearing fur which is still a symbol for rich people. It is something that is meant to come from animals and is meant to be 'real'...I think that is one of the messages behind this photo- they wanted us to think she was rich BUT real at the same time. She was Marilyn Monroe.