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Professor Corryn Smith

American Literature

October 16 2017

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. -Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston, A figure that is still impacting the world even though  she is not living any more. Whitney Houston has been an influence for everyone, no matter the gender, the age or the color; she has been the light in the darkness of many. She inspired everyone to look forward to their passions, to pursue their dreams and most of all to never leave faith behind. Winner of two Emmy trophies, Grammy’s and Billboard awards really make her be a known public figure. Houston was in the peak of her career, but sometimes being at the peak means being alone. Whitney Houston felt alone for many years, she tried to find a solution for it and her solution was drugs. Her downfall was due to drugs, the excess use of them to her to be at the front cover of many news articles and magazine. Until one day, the front cover was of Whitney Houston’s death due to drugs.

Success has been part of Whitney Houston life since being a little girl. Houston sang frequently at her church; Whitney has been known for her great voice, a talent that her family and her considered that came from God. Houston made a change in the USA; On January 27, 1991, while the United States was at war in the Persian Gulf, Houston performed "The Star Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV to a record 79 million viewers.

During a time when the country seemed divided by the war, her searing, heartfelt performance seemed to unite a nation at least for a few minutes. (CNN) Touching a heart with music is not that easy, this means that touching a whole nation is some of the biggest challenge, and we can proudly say that Whitney Houston was able to do that. Successful  was always present in her career, but sometimes she was not in the front page because of her music. Whitney Houston was slowly falling from the peak of her career.

Media, the responsible in how your point of view to an event will be. Whitney success took her to be in the spotlights. Media many times covered various events in Houston’s life;  One that had the biggest impact was the one of her death.  Many people ask the question about the way in how the media handled Houston death. Before her death media had already done an extensive record in Whitney’s drug abuse. “This is something that everybody saw coming,” Tompkins said. The media influenced her death because they were showing and telling the audience how Houston was becoming addicted to drugs; that with time they were killing her.  "The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy." Whitney Houston said. Whitney knew she was harming herself, but that was the only solution she found for depression. Even though Houston was in rehab several times she was not able to control her addiction. (People Celebrity). Her downfall was covered by media by looking at her past, by looking at her addictions and mental states.

Allusion as a literary device is when an author brings another event, character from another story to be part of his story. In Hamlet, by Shakespeare we find the literary device of Allusion being used. We find frequent use of Allusion in the play of Hamlet; a case of Allusion is when Shakespeare talk about an event of the Bible. The character that bring the literary device of Allusion is Hamlet’s Ghost.  Hamlet Ghost’s quotes the bible when he spoke about the serpent and eve. The purpose of Allusion with this quote is to compare the character of Gertrude and Claudius. He said  “As the serpent seduced eve and brought death to Adam”.The use of the word ‘as” is the key of telling us that he is comparing both characters. Meanwhile, Houston in many part of her life talked about events  in the Bible. She was even a gospel singer and many times she performed in her church as a kid. Whitney Houston lead a bible study during 1999. Whitney death was because of drugs, she caused her own destruction. The apple were the drugs, depression and loneliness was the serpent and she was eve.

Life sometimes will not end as how we expect; but isn’t it about to live life away from expectations? Being successful in music brings many negative aspects, loneliness is one. Not handling depression and loneliness are going to be downfalls to singer/artist career and life. That happened to Whitney Houston, she was not able to manage the loneliness that came with her career, she striked rock bottom with the addiction to drugs. Drugs took her to her death, the same day she had a Grammy event. Even though her tragic downfall was due to drugs; her music was left to touch and inspire everyone. At the end people and media have to focus in her positive aspects, because they are greater than what lead her to her tragedy.

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Whitney Houston has been for her great voice, a talent that her family and her considered that came from God. Even though Whitney Houston believed in God she oftenly felt alone. Her stone, her rock in the thunderstorm was her daughter. Whitney Houston lived for her daughter even though she felt alone. Her loneliness and family problems took her to a massive depression that could have been only control with professional help. Drugs was her solution, but they were killing her slowly.

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Who Was Whitney Houston?

Whitney Houston released her debut album at age 22 and scored three No. 1 singles. Whitney (1987) delivered four more No. 1s and earned Houston a Grammy, with later albums including I'm Your Baby Tonigh t (1990) and My Love Is Your Love (1998) as well as soundtracks to The Bodyguard (1992) and Waiting to Exhale (1995). With her marriage to singer Bobby Brown in 1992 and ensuing drug use, Houston's career got off track. She eventually made a comeback with 2009's I Look to You and also co-starred in the musical film Sparkle. Houston died from accidental drowning in a hotel on February 11, 2012.

Early Years

Born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, Houston almost seemed destined from birth to become a singer. Her mother and cousin were both legendary figures in American gospel, soul and pop music. Cissy Houston was the choir minister at New Hope Baptist Church, and it was there that a young Houston got her start. Even as a child, Houston was able to wow audiences; she later told Diane Sawyer that a rapturous response from the congregation at New Hope had a powerful effect upon her: "I think I knew then that [my singing ability] was an infectious thing that God had given me."

By the time she turned 15, Houston was performing often with her mother and trying to get a record deal of her own. Around the same time, she was discovered by a photographer who was awed by her natural beauty. She soon became an extremely sought-after teen model, one of the first African American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine. But music remained her true love.

When she was 19, Houston was discovered in a nightclub by Arista Records' Clive Davis, who signed her immediately and took the helm of her career as she navigated from gospel to pop stardom. In 1983, Houston made her debut on national television, appearing on The Merv Griffin Show to sing "Home" from the musical The Wiz. She and Davis spent the next two years working on her debut album, finding the best producers and songwriters available to showcase her amazing vocal talent.

Albums and Songs

'Whitney Houston' Album: "Saving All My Love for You," "How Will I Know"

In 1985, the artist released her debut album, Whitney Houston, and almost immediately became a smash pop sensation. Over the next year, her hit singles "Saving All My Love for You" and "How Will I Know" helped the album reach the top of the charts, where it stayed for 14 non-consecutive weeks. Houston won a Grammy in 1986 for "Saving All My Love for You"; the award was presented to the singer by her cousin Dionne Warwick.

'Whitney' Album: "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"

Houston followed the monumental success of her first album with a second release, Whitney, in 1987. That record, too, went platinum many times over and won a Grammy for the single "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," with a successful world tour following. During this time, the singer also appeared at a concert for Nelson Mandela's birthday and founded the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, a nonprofit organization that funds projects to help needy children over the world.

By 1992, Houston was on top of the world, but her life was about to get very complicated very quickly. That year she married the R&B singer Bobby Brown, formerly of New Edition, after a three-year engagement. At first, the marriage was passionate and loving, but things turned sour as the decade progressed. Both Brown and Houston battled substance abuse and increasingly erratic behavior, with Houston later alluding to emotional abuse from Brown and domestic violence.
READ MORE: Inside Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's Tumultuous Relationship
'The Bodyguard' Album: 'I Will Always Love You'

In spite of these growing personal troubles, Houston continued to progress in her career, crossing over successfully into acting in 1992 by starring opposite Kevin Costner in the wildly popular movie The Bodyguard. With this project, she set a trend for her films to follow: For each movie she also released hit singles, creating sensational record sales for the soundtracks. Her smash single from The Bodyguard, a cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" from 1974, proved to be Houston's biggest hit ever, spending a record-breaking 14 weeks atop the U.S. charts. The soundtrack album went on to win Houston three Grammys, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year. Later in the 1990s, Houston also starred in Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher's Wife, both accompanied by hit soundtracks as well.

'My Love Is Your Love' Album: 'It's Not Right But It's Okay'

In 1998, Houston released My Love Is Your Love, her first non-soundtrack studio album in many years, and it earned her another Grammy for the single "It's Not Right But It's Okay," The album was not as successful as her previous full-length releases, though her collaboration with Mariah Carey in the animated film The Prince of Egypt produced a hit single, "When You Believe," which won an Academy Award.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Houston's increasingly rocky marriage, struggles with drugs and health problems threatened to derail her career. Several concert cancellations and a notorious TV interview with Sawyer in 2002, in which Houston appeared far too thin and in poor health, led many to speculate that she was on the verge of a breakdown.

'Just Whitney' Album

In 2004, when production began on the TV reality series Being Bobby Brown, Houston received substantial airtime. The show aired during the worst years of the couple's crumbling marriage; drug use, lifestyle excess and bad behavior were all caught on tape and Houston's reputation sunk to new lows. Houston tried to ignore the controversy, charging ahead with her music by releasing Just Whitney... to combat her detractors, but it did not match the success of her earlier works. In spite of her troubled relationship, Houston was still celebrated as a singer, being named the most-awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records in 2006.

Over the next few years, Houston attempted to repair her marriage and to break her drug habit, but after several relapses, Cissy had to step in. As Houston explained to Oprah Winfrey in 2009: "[My mother] walks in with the sheriff and she says: 'I have a court injunction here. You do it my way or we're not going to do this at all. You're going to go on TV, and you're going to retire. And say you're going to give this up because it's not worth it.'" Houston took a break from her career, divorced Brown in 2007 and won sole custody of Bobbi Kristina.

'I Look to You' Album

After almost a decade of struggling with her personal life, Houston seemed to be pulling herself together. She released a new album, I Look To You, in 2009. "The songs themselves will speak to you and you'll understand where I am and some of the changes I've gone through for the better," Houston told Entertainment Tonight. The recording received a warm welcome from music fans, making it to the top of album charts. Her live shows, however, garnered mixed reviews, with some complaining about the quality of her voice.

Death

In early 2012, Houston was rumored to be experiencing financial trouble, but she denied this claim. Indeed, the artist seemed poised for a career upswing: Houston worked on the musical film Sparkle with Jordin Sparks, a remake of the 1976 movie about an all-girl musical group similar to The Supremes, and also reportedly had been approached to join the singing competition series The X Factor as a judge. Unfortunately, Houston did not live long enough to see the latest comeback reach fruition.

Houston died at the age of 48 on February 11, 2012, in Los Angeles at a Beverly Hilton hotel where a Grammy party was being held by Davis. Houston had been seen out in the days before her death, including at one of the pre-Grammy parties. According to a report released by the Los Angeles County coroner's office on March 22, 2012, the official cause of her death was an accidental drowning. The effects of heart disease and cocaine found in her system were contributing factors as well.

With her passing, the music world lost one of its most legendary stars. Davis once said that Houston "is in the great tradition of great, great singers, whether it's Lena Horne or Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan or Gladys Knight."

Photo: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

Daughter Bobbi Kristina

Daughter Bobbi Kristina dealt with much tumult after the death of her mother. She was hospitalized immediately after the passing of Houston due to emotional trauma but later spoke with Winfrey about returning to her mother's home and feeling her mother's presence. Houston left everything to her daughter, but eventually the singer's sister-in-law Pat Houston became the executor of the estate.

Bobbi Kristina had public conflicts with her grandmother, Cissy, over the publishing of the Houston biography Remembering Whitney. In early 2014, she was reported to have been married to Nick Gordon, who had been taken in by Houston during his childhood and raised with Bobbi Kristina, yet later reports stated that they weren't legally wed. In another confrontation, she made disparaging comments via Twitter about Angela Bassett after the actress/director opted to cast a trained actress in the lead role of a Houston biopic instead of Bobbi Kristina.

On January 31, 2015, nearly three years to the date of her mother's death, Bobbi Kristina was discovered face down in a bathtub in her Roswell, Georgia, home by associate Max Lomas. After being admitted to North Fulton Hospital, she was eventually taken to Emory University Hospital, having been placed into a medically-induced coma.

Her father and grandmother visited her bedside amid calls for public support and prayer, with a candlelight vigil held on February 10 in suburban Atlanta. Bobbi Kristina Brown died on July 26, 2015, at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia. She was 22 years old.

Documentary

Backed by the Houston estate, the documentary Whitney was released in July 2018, with Houston's sister-in-law, Pat, serving as executive producer.

"Everyone that has a life has a story. It's her story and it's played out in the documentary," Pat Houston told Good Morning America a few weeks before the film's release. "She narrated a lot of it herself. It's just her life and her story as the family would see it, and the friends, who dealt with it every single day."

The documentary premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In the doc, it is revealed that her cousin, Dee Dee Warwick, sister of Dionne Warwick, allegedly sexually abused the singer. Houston's brother told filmmakers he was abused by Dee Dee and believed his sister was too. The documentary also provided insight into Houston's relationship with drugs - her brother Michael admitted that he gave her marijuana and cocaine as a gift for her 16th birthday - as well as her kinship with fellow pop superstar Michael Jackson.

The following year brought more revelations about the singer's private life with the publication of A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston, by Robyn Crawford. A longtime friend and assistant, Crawford confirmed that the two also had a romantic relationship before Houston became a global superstar.
READ MORE: Inside Whitney Houston's Relationship With Best Friend Robyn Crawford
Posthumous Music, Projects and Honors

'Memories,' 'Higher Love'

In 2016, fans were treated to the release of a new Houston single, "Memories," with Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza sharing credit on the track. Houston's vocals had been recorded nearly 35 years earlier. In 2019, another new Houston single surfaced, this one a cover of Steve Winwood's 1986 hit "Higher Love." Houston had recorded a version that was originally meant for her 1990 album I'm Your Baby Tonight, before it was remixed for a posthumous release by Norwegian DJ and producer Kygo.

Hologram Tour

In 2019, it was announced that Houston's hologram would be going on tour the following year. The production was being developed by BASE Holograms, which had already debuted shows featuring the likenesses of Greek opera diva Maria Callas and American rock 'n' roll great Roy Orbison.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

On January 15, 2020, it was announced that Houston had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Whitney's downfall was due to the depression she had that took her to consume excessive amount of drugs.

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In 2005, Cissy Houston knocked on the door of her daughter Whitney Houston 's Atlanta home after her son Gary warned her the singer "was in trouble."

Though she had been long worried about her daughter's drug use, nothing could have prepared her for the haunting scene inside. "Somebody had spray-painted the walls, painting big, glaring eyes and strange faces," Cissy, 82, wrote in her 2013 memoir Remembering Whitney. "They were evil eyes, staring out like a threat. And in another room, there was a big, framed photo of Nippy, Bobby and Krissi, but someone had cut Nippy's head right out of it."

When Whitney appeared at the top of the stairs, the once-stunning star who sold more than 170 million records and racked up six Grammys "looked like someone I didn't know," Cissy told PEOPLE in 2013. "I knew my daughter was in grave danger."

Though it's been four years since the star tragically died at 48 from accidental drowning (she was found to have cocaine in her system), the swirl of stories and drama - including her mother's book detailing her anger and anguish over Whitney's drug addiction and the ongoing feud between the Brown and Houston families over Bobbi Kristina's hospitalization and death - has never ended.
Related Video: Bobby Brown Says He and Whitney Houston Failed Bobbi Kristina: 'We Should Have Been Better. We Could Have Been Better

Now, in a new memoir Every Little Step, Whitney's former husband Bobby Brown, 47, opens up about their doomed love story, and how drugs helped lead to their undoing.

"The drugs wasn't her," Brown says in a clip from his 20/20 sit-down with Robin Roberts, airing at 10 p.m. on ABC. Revealing that he first saw Whitney taking cocaine just before she was to walk down the aisle at their 1992 wedding, a tearful Brown tells Roberts, "She did drugs but the drugs didn't do her. She knew how to handle herself."
The Pressures of Fame
According to her friends and family, who PEOPLE interviewed at the time of her death, there were two Whitney Houstons: the dazzling pop princess groomed by Arista president Clive Davis, and the girl from Newark, New Jersey who rebelled against pressures to be perfect by turning to drugs in her early 20s.

"There were a lot of expectations in terms of who she was and who people thought she was," a close family friend tells PEOPLE. "I think not being able to be herself 100 percent was a hell of a burden for her to have to carry. Someone may look good on the outside, sturdy and strong . . . [but] on the inside, you have someone who had insecurities and family issues and emotional personal issues and struggles."

After Davis signed her to his label in 1985, she "had to do what he said, wear what he said to, sing what he wanted her to sing and act like a goody two shoes when she was really a down and dirty girl from Jersey," says a record executive who worked with her. "Whitney definitely resented that."

Adds a music source: "Clive made her into a mainstream pop star and allowed all of her wildest dreams to come true, but being this massive pop star came at a price. She had to act a certain way in front of the cameras for the label. That wasn't the real Whitney."
A Life of Rebellion
Entering a romantic relationship with Brown (the two wed in 1992 and had an explosive marriage that ultimately ended in 2007) and using drugs were "her rebellion against it all," says the family friend. "There has to be some outlet. For her, it became drugs." According to a record executive who worked with the singer for years, Whitney "did drugs to escape her pain."

At first, she was able to keep her drug use hidden, but "things got worse and worse," says a family source. "Suddenly, when she was using, she had no idea who she was or who you were and she became angry and lashed out. We'd take turns checking on her in Atlanta when things were bad."

Surrounded by enablers who "allowed Whitney to do what she wanted to do," the star was quick to fire someone "if she felt you were not being cooperative on some level," says the family friend.
Family Rendered Helpless
When no one else was around, it was Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina who looked after the singer. Once showing up at Houston's Atlanta house, the family source recalls a then 11- or 12-year-old Bobbi Kristina answering the door.

"Bobbi said Whitney wasn't feeling well so [she] put her to bed," recalls the family source. "I went upstairs to her bedroom and the room was a disaster." With piles of clothes and dirty dishes strewn about and Houston asleep in the midst of it all, the family source says "It was the bedroom of a junkie."

Though she entered rehab multiple times throughout her adult life, Whitney struggled with addiction until it ultimately took her life.

"She was in pain from all the pressure she was facing and the pain from living almost a double life," says the record executive. "She was doing ridiculous amounts of hard drugs and sacrificed her God-given talents for that."

* With reporting by KC BAKER, STEVE HELLING and TIFFANY MCGEE

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Whitney Houston's Long Battle with Drug Addiction

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In 2005, Cissy Houston knocked on the door of her daughter Whitney Houston 's Atlanta home after her son Gary warned her the singer "was in trouble." Though she had been long worried about her daughter's drug use, nothing could have prepared her for the haunting scene inside.

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Peripeteia-When a character produces an effect opposite to that which he intended to produce
Anagnorisis- Is a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined for good or bad fortune
Hamartia- A mistake or error-not knowing enough
Katharsis- relief
Memesis- imitating

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Toxic: Poisonous
Rancour:a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
conflagration:A large destructive fire
enmity:(n.) hatred, ill-will
heinous: (adj.) very wicked, offensive, hateful.
malfeasance: an illegal act, especially by a public official
malice: Desire to harm others.
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The tragic hero is of noble original, often a king, queen, prince, or princess.

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1)  Many artist suffer of depression and fews take action of it. Most of those suffering depression do drugs as a solution.
2) Living behind the drugs, an addiction that will take Houston to lose her talent.
3) Whitney Houston lived two lives, one for the cameras and the disaster she was due to drugs and family problems.

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Video: Houston Interview: Drug Addiction

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Ten years ago Whitney Houston and I sat down at her living room for an intense interview it was the first time. She ever admitted her drug addiction she also told me something I'll never forget about her terror of performing. Asking me as I was leaving have you ever heard the sound of 101000 people disappointed in you.

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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. -Whitney Houston

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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. -Whitney Houston