Paper Thesis (Subject to Change)

After reading the preface and the introduction to this book, pictured left I believe I refined my topic and have come up with a thesis. Bob's immersion into the Rastafarian lifestyle in the early stages of his life and his sequential beliefs as they manifested themselves in his songs and his teachings relates to two of the themes of this class. The Myth of the Eternal Return, and Life as Fiction. Bob's message in his songs articulated a calling of self purification and redemption. "If you sing the right words it can live. It can live through the world and when the next world comes you don't need that anymore, there you need new words." He understood that things would always return to our lives and we should see them as something else when they come around again. Bob understood that his life was shaped by Jah, the Rastafarian God, and he saw his lyrics as a message of the lives people should be living. In this way he wrote what he believed our lives should be, and his life is no exception. I plan to look at Bob's life and how he came to see the world in this way, also I plan on doing a critical analysis of one or two of his songs, as they relate to these themes.