Marilyn Monroe is one of the United States biggest sexual icons, even long after her death. Behind the beauty lies an extremely complex individual. Monroe lived a lavish lifestyle, one that most spend hours dreaming of. Regardless of her riches, on August 5, 1962 Monroe was found in her bed dead. The cause of death as determined by Los Angeles police and coroner was suicide. Monroe used antidepressants in her suicide (History.com, 2009).
Throughout this assignment we will be taking an in-depth look into the celebrity’s life. While doing so, I will be applying nine different personality theories to explain the development of Monroe’s personality. In addition to this, I will be identifying methods of personality assessment, and the tools that …show more content…
Doc and Grace Goddard took in Monroe for a brief period of time. However, Doc’s career led him and his wife elsewhere, the couple were unable to take Monroe with them (Biography.com Editors , 2016). With an absent father, and mother who was unfit to provide for her, Marilyn was then placed in the foster care system at the age of seven.
During her placement in the foster care system Marilyn was sexually assaulted on many occasions. By age fifteen Marilyn dropped out of high school, a year later married Jimmy Dougherty, to escape her misfortune (Biography.com Editors , 2016). Dougherty’s profession was as a merchant marine, and was sent to the South Pacific. While Dougherty was stationed in the South Pacific, Monroe went to work in a munitions factory in California. While employed in the factory Monroe was discovered by a photographer (Biography.com Editors , 2016).
Once Dougherty returned home in 1946, Monroe’s career as a model had sky rocked, the same year the couple divorced. Monroe’s then began her acting career and throughout her acting career Marilyn profited roughly two hundred million dollars from her movies alone (History.com,
Throughout this assignment we will be taking an in-depth look into the celebrity’s life. While doing so, I will be applying nine different personality theories to explain the development of Monroe’s personality. In addition to this, I will be identifying methods of personality assessment, and the tools that …show more content…
Doc and Grace Goddard took in Monroe for a brief period of time. However, Doc’s career led him and his wife elsewhere, the couple were unable to take Monroe with them (Biography.com Editors , 2016). With an absent father, and mother who was unfit to provide for her, Marilyn was then placed in the foster care system at the age of seven.
During her placement in the foster care system Marilyn was sexually assaulted on many occasions. By age fifteen Marilyn dropped out of high school, a year later married Jimmy Dougherty, to escape her misfortune (Biography.com Editors , 2016). Dougherty’s profession was as a merchant marine, and was sent to the South Pacific. While Dougherty was stationed in the South Pacific, Monroe went to work in a munitions factory in California. While employed in the factory Monroe was discovered by a photographer (Biography.com Editors , 2016).
Once Dougherty returned home in 1946, Monroe’s career as a model had sky rocked, the same year the couple divorced. Monroe’s then began her acting career and throughout her acting career Marilyn profited roughly two hundred million dollars from her movies alone (History.com,