Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
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Jim Morrison is the lead singer of the classic rock and roll band "The Doors". Jim
Morrison not only was the lead vocalist in the famous sixties band, he was also the writer of most
but not all of The Doors songs and the author of many poems. Susan Sontag is an
accomplished author. Some of Susan Sontag's works include essays, reviews, editing, novels
and short stories. Although at first Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag appear to have nothing or
very little in common, both because of Jim Morrison's main influence coming from author
Friedrich Nietzsche, who believed in existentialism (a body of ethical thought centering about the
uniqueness and isolation of individual experiences in a universe indifferent or even hostile to
man, regarding human existence as unexplainable, and emphasizing man's freedom of choice
and responsibility for the consequences of his acts), and Susan Sontag's writings following a
style of existentialism, both Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag's works focus constantly on relating
the message of placing blame on oneself in order to obtain a more perfect soul.
Born James Douglas Morrison on December 8 1843 in Melbourne Florida to parents
Steve and Clara Morrison(Hopkins, Sugerman 5). A few months after the birth of Jim Morrison,
Jim's father Steve and his mine layer were sent off to fight in World War Two. For the next three
years Jim's mother Clara, was forced to raise Jim with only the help of sympathizing relatives
who believed in ideas such as "Children should be seen and not heard ... Ignore something
unpleasant and it will go away... "(Hopkins, Sugerman 5). This constant barrage of negativity
may have been one of the first factors leading to Jim's beliefs in existentialism. The way in
which the negativity lead to Jim's belief is that through the constant attack, Jim began to feel as
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