Lindsay Lohan by Chiara Gunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr Tragic Hero en-us 2016-09-08 02:20:04 UTC 2023-10-14 17:16:23 UTC hello@padlet.com Intro  cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122313157    According to the Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan, “Cocaine and Pills almost killed me”. This is a headline from the Huffington Post published in 2010, about Lindsay Lohan's tragic moments, written in big and bold letters. The mediocrity of every typical news headline, where they try to talk about tragic elements and the fall of the people in order to attract society about what is happening with celebrities. Although Lindsay started her famous life as a great actress, that kind of life led her to make terrible and shocking decisions such as taking drugs and alcohol. The hamartia of the famous actress was like a gift to Social Media due to all the articles posted at an instant. According to the article published by The Huffington post in 2013, Lindsay Lohan said: "I was terrified of being judged" in an reprehensible way during an interview with Oprah. After the world found about her deleterious acts, Lindsay discovered that she was terrified when people found such things out about her due to social media. Lindsay Lohan is an example of a tragic hero just like Hamlet. Both have similarities many similarities, they are a perfect match when it comes of talking about tragic heros.

    Hamlet, a tragic hero, shares common characteristics to Lindsay Lohan due to their downfall, both having similarities in their problems that were a reason to their life's destruction. Both of these tragic heroes have a lot of similarities in which they can be compared. Lindsay Lohan and Hamlet have many problems; they deal with depression, they don’t have a good relationship with their parents, they are mentally ill and become very emotional. When it comes to their addiction problems, both characters experienced melancholic and obscure moments in their lives. Also, Lindsay Lohan and Hamlet are effusive characters and are sons and daughters of opulent parents that might have complicated their lives even more. Due to their addiction problems, these characters deal with depression by feeling lonely and not have the support like others do. They have experienced poignant moments in their lives, all of this has lead and complicated the lives of these tragic heroes which make a great comparison due to their problems. ]]> 2016-09-08 02:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122313157 Who is Lindsay Lohan? cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122316177 Lindsay is an American access, who began her career at a young age. Throughout her life she went through a lot, which lead her to be a drug addict. Thousands of news headlines and media wrote about her tragic moments. Although Lindsey had some downs, after everything she went trough she was able to recover going to rehab and with help of others. ]]> 2016-09-08 03:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122316177 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318175 2016-09-08 03:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318175 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318207 2016-09-08 03:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318207 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318208 2016-09-08 03:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318208 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318211 2016-09-08 03:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318211 Vocabulary cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318407 Mediocrity: the state of being poor in quality
Hamartia: a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero
Reprehensible: deserving blame or punishment
Deleterious: harmful ]]> 2016-09-08 03:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318407 Topic Sentence 3 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318683 Social Media mimicking her personal life on a shameless daily basis led to her unstable mentality and eventually her disappearance from spotlight. 

In a webpage called CelerbityDownAndOut.com, they used Lohan's addiction as an easy way to publish articles and ruins her life by making it worse so people know about her. ]]> 2016-09-08 03:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122318683 Thesis: cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122319573 Lindsay Lohan is an example of a tragic hero just like Hamlet. From being the most famous actress in Disney Channel, Lindsay started drinking alcohol and using drugs leading her famous life to a downfall due to all the Social Media articles. ]]> 2016-09-08 03:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122319573 Topic Sentence 1 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122538059  From her parents to Disney Channel, Lindsay started to make a name for herself, ascending to the Hollywood world. 

Based on the webpage BIO. she became a child model and commercial actress which brought her to the famous life when she was only three years old. http://www.biography.com/people/lindsay-lohan-16599978]]> 2016-09-08 17:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122538059 Topic Sentence 2 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122538327  Even though drugs may have caused her delirium, her nightmare was just beginning.

According to the webpage BIO. indsay's fame grew more and more, but so did her nightlife as she started to attend more nightclubs in New York City. After being arrested twice, she was found in possession of cocaine.
http://www.biography.com/people/lindsay-lohan-16599978]]> 2016-09-08 17:40:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/122538327 Hamlet & Lindsay  cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126224476 - Addiction
- depression
- problems (parents)
- famous parents
- mentally ill
- emotional
- "suicidal"
- kids of rich parents]]> 2016-09-25 17:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126224476 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126224955 2016-09-25 17:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126224955 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126225720 2016-09-25 18:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126225720 Quizlet Vocabulary cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126227170 - Effusive: very emotional
- Melancholy: sad
- Obscure: partially hidden
- Opulent: wealthy
- Poignant: deeply affecting, touching
- Convoluted: complicated
- quandary: a state of perplexity or doubt
- disparity: unlikeness
- gratuitous: freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarranted
- superflous:  exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess]]> 2016-09-25 18:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126227170 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126227422 2016-09-25 18:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126227422 Epigraph cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126229032 "To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—
No more" 3.1.3
]]> 2016-09-25 18:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/126229032 Main Question cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127044966 Hoes does contemporary media use tragic elements to illustrate the demise of a popular public figure?]]> 2016-09-28 17:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127044966 Topic Sentence  (Hamlet Comparison) cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127045881 Hamlet, a tragic hero, relates to Lindsay due to their downfall, both having similarities in their errors and problems that were a reason to their life's destruction.

"To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—
No more"
]]> 2016-09-28 17:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127045881 Lindsay Lohan’s Addictions Affect her Acting Career cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127049697 2016-09-28 17:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127049697 She is even on the Internet for being a celebrity who went Broke.. cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127052627 2016-09-28 17:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/127052627 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128054918 2016-10-04 04:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128054918 Lindsay Lohan Reveals Her Drug of Choice to Oprah cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128055060 2016-10-04 04:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128055060 Lindsay Lohan's troubled timeline cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128055472 2016-10-04 04:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128055472 Evidence #1 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128901363 "To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause."  Act 3, Scene 1, Page 3
    Paraphrased:  To die, to sleep—to sleep, maybe to dream. Ah, but there’s the catch: in death’s sleep who knows what kind of dreams might come, after we’ve put the noise and commotion of life behind us. That’s certainly something to worry about.
     Own Words: This quote shows how Hamlet is discussing and thinking either to die or to sleep and the consequences. 
]]> 2016-10-06 17:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128901363 Evidence #2 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128903828 "Let me see. (takes the skull) Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. —Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? (5.1.8)

Paraphrased: Let me see. (he takes the skull) Oh, poor Yorick! I used to know him, Horatio—a very funny guy, and with an excellent imagination. He carried me on his back a thousand times, and now—how terrible—this is him. It makes my stomach turn. I don’t know how many times I kissed the lips that used to be right here. Where are your jokes now? Your pranks? Your songs?

Own Words: This quote demonstrates how sentimental Hamlet got and for me this is a moment where Hamlet forgets about everything and changes in a good way]]> 2016-10-06 17:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128903828 Evidence #3 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128906160 "I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife. I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave." 5.1.11

Paraphrased: I hoped you would marry Hamlet and be his wife. I imagined myself taking flowers to your wedding, but now I am doing this on you grave.

Own Words: This quote shows how everything changed, how Gertritude thought that Hamlet and Ophelia would get married but instead Hamlet was a reason that Ophelia killed herself. ]]> 2016-10-06 17:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128906160 PETER paragraph  cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128919371 Lindsay Lohan, the famous actress, became a tragic hero mainly because of her drug addiction problems. Similarly, the character Hamlet, from the famous European tragic play Hamlet became a tragic hero in the following ways. He experienced difficulties with his mother’s new marriage and his father’s death, he became depressed and always wanted to find revenge. Both these character share characteristics that make them similar, such as  having suicidal thoughts, addiction problems, dealing with depression, having problems with their parents, being mentally ill, and emotional. For instance we can see in this quote how Hamlet deals with his problems in life, leading his thoughts to be suicidal. “To be, or not to be? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep— No more". The tone that is reflecting from this quote shows how confusing Hamlet has been feeling. He thought that being dead would solve all his problems, and so did Lindsay Lohan. The famous actress, surrounded by problems and by the reporting in media came to a point where she couldn't handle it anymore trying to commit suicide and giving up her life. Lindsay Lohan experienced drug addiction problems, being a cause of becoming a tragic hero. On the other side, Hamlet also experienced addiction problems; however, this addiction problems related to having an addiction for revenge. This addiction for revenge was due to his father's loss and the marriage between his mother and his uncle, which is another reason that Hamlet became a tragic hero. This relates to Lindsay Lohan, where she had some issues with her father, causing her to take drugs and drink too much alcohol. All these issues led both characters do deal with depression and becoming mentally ill. The way Lindsay Lohan started with her drug addiction was from being the most famous actress in Disney Channel and later having troubles with alcohol and drugs.]]> 2016-10-06 17:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/128919371 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129373417 2016-10-09 23:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129373417 Body Paragraph 1 cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129566337 From her parents to Disney Channel, Lindsay Lohan started to make a name for herself, ascending to the Hollywood world. Lindsay Lohan's road to fame was accomplished with her parents hard work. Based on Lindsay Lohan’s biography published by Bio. she became a child model and commercial actress which brought her to the famous life when she was only three years old. She was the star of more than 60 television sports and 100 prints ads, with help from all this, sh was able to succeed and start her first Disney movie in 1998, the Parent Trap. This movie was a success and made over $92 million globally, which made Lindsay Lohan more famous and more wanted. Although many think fame make someone's life better, her life didn't get any better by gaining fame and growing in the Hollywood world, instead it was just the beginning of her downfall. ]]> 2016-10-10 16:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129566337 Body Paragraph 2  cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129571410 Even though drugs may have caused her delirium, her nightmare was just beginning. Lindsay's fame grew more and more, but so did her nightlife as she started to attend more nightclubs in New York City. After being arrested twice, she was found in possession of cocaine. This is how her famous life resulted out, taking drugs and drinking too much alcohol. She still was not aware how all these actions would ruin her life and her career. According to Lindsay Lohan’s biography published by the website Bio., the reason she was arrested due to crashing car her car, was because of the drugs and the alcohol she took that same night. This made made her get out of control. She might have thought it was okay do to drugs and drink alcohol sometimes but after a while she got addicted to it and it became a habit. The way her life would be discovered worldwide is by social media, using her addiction as a way to publish articles and marking her struggle even more. ]]> 2016-10-10 16:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129571410 Body Paragraph 3  cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129572712 Social Media mimicking her personal life on a seamless daily basis led to unstable mentality and eventually her disappearance from spotlight. In a webpage called CelebrityDownAndOut.com, they used Lindsay Lohan's addiction as a way to publish articles to ruin her life and make it worse so that people know about her. This webpage tells us everything bye just reading it's name, writing about celebrities and their downfall. In this case they used Lindsay Lohan, and it is the only article about her and her personal life. There are millions of other articles that used her addiction as a way to get people's attention and talking about her fame. This is how Social Media, uses headlines of articles to get people's attention to make famous people's problematic life impossible to win back. ]]> 2016-10-10 16:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/129572712 Conclusion cgunkel https://padlet.com/cgunkel/o8purad28nyr/wish/130017223 Lindsay Lohan suffered a lot throughout her life from dealing with many problems. The way media used tragic elements, in this case Lindsay Lohan, to illustrate the difficult moments of a popular figure. As the previous examples, media used her problems as a way to get people’s attention and destroy her life, making everything she deals with worse. Therefore, media published thousands of articles about Lindsay Lohan’s downfall to write an article “interesting” for society. The actress relates to Hamlet when being a tragic character, both experiencing tragic moments in their life. When it comes to finding a tragic hero character, Lindsay Lohan and Hamlet are the first characters that come in my mind, since they are the ones I mostly studied on. 

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