Bohemian Rhapsody: A Ballad Of Loss And Grief
“Bohemian Rhapsody”: A Ballad of Loss and Grief In Freddie Mercury’s song Bohemian Rhapsody, a young boy commits a crime and must face the effects of his actions. However, beyond the narrative told by the song, a deeper meaning about the writer and singer of Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, dealing with the grief of doing something that he views as a terrible act, and his loss of himself because of doing so is present. Because Mercury originally writes and sings the song, the “boy” that the song refers to is most likely him or at the very least, based off him. On that basis, the boy shooting someone and going through the persecution in the song is a representation of Mercury doing something that he views as being just as bad a murder and
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He is actually saying here that the devil has made a personal eternal torture for him because that, “In the name of God”, Mercury cannot just be released and forgiven for what he has done. It also seems that Mercury feels that he lost a part of himself by calling himself a “silhouette of a man.” What he does takes away some of his self-worth and makes him see himself as just a shell of who he was at one point. The loss of Mercury’s former innocence from a time before he did his sinful actions, his subsequent grief from believing that said actions have made him unforgivable in the all-forgiving eyes of God, and the structure of the song as a whole all seems to show that the five stages of grief and loss (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance) is what Mercury is experiencing at the time of writing “Bohemian Rhapsody.” In the beginning of the song, Mercury states that he is in denial about “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” Mercury shows his denial of not only doing what he did but if what he did was even real at all. Then the song shows him becoming depressed several lines later. He becomes so depressed in fact that he begins to “wish I'd (he had) never been born at all.” To wish that one was never alive shows a great
He is actually saying here that the devil has made a personal eternal torture for him because that, “In the name of God”, Mercury cannot just be released and forgiven for what he has done. It also seems that Mercury feels that he lost a part of himself by calling himself a “silhouette of a man.” What he does takes away some of his self-worth and makes him see himself as just a shell of who he was at one point. The loss of Mercury’s former innocence from a time before he did his sinful actions, his subsequent grief from believing that said actions have made him unforgivable in the all-forgiving eyes of God, and the structure of the song as a whole all seems to show that the five stages of grief and loss (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance) is what Mercury is experiencing at the time of writing “Bohemian Rhapsody.” In the beginning of the song, Mercury states that he is in denial about “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” Mercury shows his denial of not only doing what he did but if what he did was even real at all. Then the song shows him becoming depressed several lines later. He becomes so depressed in fact that he begins to “wish I'd (he had) never been born at all.” To wish that one was never alive shows a great