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Everyone has been trying to understand Michael Jackson’s death this summer.
Everyone has been trying to understand Michael Jackson’s death this summer.
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2025-04-03
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Everyone has been trying to understand Michael Jackson’s death this summer. While medics are still picking at his slender corpse, cultural authorities argue like vultures over his reputation. Should he be remembered as a great singer, a man possibly sexually attracted to children, an emblematic black artist who tried to bleach his face white, the Fred Astaire(a major founder of stage dance)of the 1980s, the first to master the MTV pop video, or a troubled victim of a domineering father? His difficult journey from unhappy childhood, to weird quasi-adulthood has been told and re-told frequently and annoyingly across the world.
Yet Jackson’s current crisis is an extreme version of a process that will happen to us all. For, as Jean Paul Sartre(French existentialist philosopher)put it, at death we become prey to the "Other" — our identity dissipating into the sum total of what is thought about us. While we are alive, Sartre explained, we can resist this pressure; we can defy the options that other people try to project onto us. We can’t erase our pasts, but we can always overturn future expectations. It’s a struggle Sartre saw as central to our existence as moral beings: we must do more than act out the roles others have scripted for us.
This is the existential condition of humanity—we are the artists of our own lives, although with the anguish that comes from being condemned to be free. Given the weight of expectations heaped on his shoulders, it’s something Michael Jackson felt more crushingly than most: a burden reflected in his lifelong modifications of his own appearance. The human body, Ludwig Wittgenstein(an Austrian-British philosopher)once declared, is the best picture we have of the human soul. And Jackson’s body in his last days legibly expressed something very revealing.
Death, of course, takes everything away. The back catalogue of Jackson’s songs is now the complete catalogue. Yet, according to Sartre, death is not the final chord of a 4 melody that suddenly resolves and makes sense of what went before. Instead, it merely begins an endless new argument over meanings from which the core—the real person—is perpetually absent. Michael Jackson is no longer with us. Instead, "Michael Jackson" is becoming the sum of what others hope to make of him. [br] Paragraph 1 mainly tells that people have been trying to______.
选项
A、define Jackson as a person
B、speculate on Jackson’s death
C、stain Jackson’s reputation
D、question Jackson as a celebrity
答案
A
解析
本题是主旨题。根据第一段的“Everyone has been trying to understand MichaelJackson’s death this summer.”可知,人们一直想知道迈克尔·杰克逊的死因。但是下文“While medics are still picking at his slender corpse,cultural authorities argue like vultures over hisreputation.…His difficult journey from unhappy childhood…”指出社会各界一直对迈克尔·杰克逊的生活感兴趣。由此可知A正确。
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