The Bluest Eye Chapter 2 Essay
Chapter 2 In the novel The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison, I have seen that there is more suffering caused by a diseased mind than by a diseased body. The idea of a “diseased mind” is a mental illness while the “diseased body” is a physical illness or injury and though the former is more dominant, yet both are displayed by the characters in the novel.
The Bluest Eye is Morrison’s first novel and also a very powerful study of how African-American families and particularly women are affected by racism and consequent sexual and mental abuse and how these women dwindle into madness. She depicts the struggle of living as a black American in a white, patriarchal society.
Toni Morrison’s work is powerfully engaged with questions of history, memory and trauma. Her novels function as a form of …show more content…
Once when rosemary Villanucci hollored against the girls, Mrs. MacTeer spanked them without any consideration.
Mama grabbed Frieda by the shoulder , turned her around, and gave her three or four stinging cuts on her legs… Frieda was destroyed. Whippings wounded and insulted her… Frieda was sobbing. I next in line, began to explain. “She was bleeding. We was just trying to stop the blood!”(28-29)
It was because Pecola had attained her puberty that they were trying to help her but their mother did not even have the patience to hear them out at first. Such nuances give us a view that children are tender beings but the inconsideration of the mother while they were trying to help a fellow being in need destroys further prospects of their helping others.
Another instance of inconsiderate parenthood is that of Geraldine who is a diligent housewife and a mother, yet is cold, ignorant and indifferent towards her son. She only feels real affection for her blue-eyed black cat. As a result her son turns rebellious and a bully. He abused the cat, Pecola and ends up killing the
The Bluest Eye is Morrison’s first novel and also a very powerful study of how African-American families and particularly women are affected by racism and consequent sexual and mental abuse and how these women dwindle into madness. She depicts the struggle of living as a black American in a white, patriarchal society.
Toni Morrison’s work is powerfully engaged with questions of history, memory and trauma. Her novels function as a form of …show more content…
Once when rosemary Villanucci hollored against the girls, Mrs. MacTeer spanked them without any consideration.
Mama grabbed Frieda by the shoulder , turned her around, and gave her three or four stinging cuts on her legs… Frieda was destroyed. Whippings wounded and insulted her… Frieda was sobbing. I next in line, began to explain. “She was bleeding. We was just trying to stop the blood!”(28-29)
It was because Pecola had attained her puberty that they were trying to help her but their mother did not even have the patience to hear them out at first. Such nuances give us a view that children are tender beings but the inconsideration of the mother while they were trying to help a fellow being in need destroys further prospects of their helping others.
Another instance of inconsiderate parenthood is that of Geraldine who is a diligent housewife and a mother, yet is cold, ignorant and indifferent towards her son. She only feels real affection for her blue-eyed black cat. As a result her son turns rebellious and a bully. He abused the cat, Pecola and ends up killing the