The Bluest Eye Beauty Essay
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when the image of beauty is one that has been ingrained into the mind since childhood, how can that statement possibly be true. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison proves this statement to be contradictory, because, in her novel, beauty is no longer just a person’s opinion but has been made into an unwritten rule, a standard set by society for society. The use of the theme black as other makes evident the cause and effect relationship a person’s position within society has upon the perception they form of their own personal beauty.
Roses are red, violets are blue, they say she’s ugly, but is that true? In Pecola’s world, no truer statement could ever be said. From the time she was a small child, her whole life had been surrounded by ugliness. The comments others murmured about her, the way her mother viewed her, how others treated her as if she was nothing,“all of the waste which was dumped on her and which she absorbed” impacted how she saw herself (). Every ugly act done unto her began when …show more content…
No one loves the head of a dandelion or their jagged leaves. No one loves the things that don’t fit into their ideas of an ideal world. In the society Pecola grows up in, she is that weed, never loved because no one can see the beauty she holds or the worth that she carries. She would never know her own beauty because “she would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people” (). The only time she even considered her own beauty was when she saw the beauty in the dandelions, and even that was short lived after once again being exposed to how others viewed her through the actions of the store owner. Pecola begins to lose herself to the thoughts of others, now seeing the dandelions through their eyes, no longer seeing the beauty but thinking “They are ugly. They are weeds.”() Pecola had become so broken down by the way society saw her that she no longer could see herself in any other
Roses are red, violets are blue, they say she’s ugly, but is that true? In Pecola’s world, no truer statement could ever be said. From the time she was a small child, her whole life had been surrounded by ugliness. The comments others murmured about her, the way her mother viewed her, how others treated her as if she was nothing,“all of the waste which was dumped on her and which she absorbed” impacted how she saw herself (). Every ugly act done unto her began when …show more content…
No one loves the head of a dandelion or their jagged leaves. No one loves the things that don’t fit into their ideas of an ideal world. In the society Pecola grows up in, she is that weed, never loved because no one can see the beauty she holds or the worth that she carries. She would never know her own beauty because “she would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people” (). The only time she even considered her own beauty was when she saw the beauty in the dandelions, and even that was short lived after once again being exposed to how others viewed her through the actions of the store owner. Pecola begins to lose herself to the thoughts of others, now seeing the dandelions through their eyes, no longer seeing the beauty but thinking “They are ugly. They are weeds.”() Pecola had become so broken down by the way society saw her that she no longer could see herself in any other