ENGA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Shampoo, Human Spirit, Essenes
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Youtube video marilyn monroe diamonds are a girl"s best friend (gentlemen prefer blondes, 1955) Youtube video the three faces of eve (1957) Today bell jar, poems written in 1958, 1959. All three written in same time period. Note never had been fought in america. Helped rebuild europe, became international force that it is today. Brief couple of years after wwii, america only country with atomic bomb. No one ever saw any power like the atomic bomb before this. Holocaust was also discovered systematic murder by nazi regime. Human spirit seems to show itself as remarkable, and also capable of evil. Popular culture and commodities rose offered support to determine who we are . Time of many tranquilizers invented, began to become prescribed to wives who were not coping. Both monroe and girl both died in 1962. Part of the pressure on women, all of this uncertainty on the human condition a lot of it projected on women.
