The Bluest Eye Research Paper
Beauty in the American culture has been transformed so many times most people do not even know what real beauty is. Someone can see a woman posing on a billboard in New York City and believe that she is beautiful, but who decided who and what can be beautiful. The way our culture is American people watch television, movies, internet clips constantly. People are fed images of what "beauty" is supposed to be, but this idea of beauty is from the eyes of producers, models, musicians, and actors. It seems to me that only the people who are thought to have beauty are deciding what is beautiful. In Toni Morrison's book The Bluest Eye there are many instances dealing with the idea of beauty, both through the eyes of some young girls and from an older point of view. For example, Claudia has a problem with white people who she believes to be more
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Bound to be the ugliest thing walking."
"Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: tow ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground." "Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live." (pg. 189-190)
In my final example we'll look at Pecola and her wish to have blue eyes. Pecola believes that if her eyes were blue, making them beautiful in accordance to white standards, her life would be less "ugly", and her problems would go away. I believe Pecola also thinks that if her eyes were blue that her peers and teachers would like her more, making life easier. Pecola also hates the fact that she stares at herself in the mirror attempting to figure out how she became way she is.
"Do you know what you came for? Blue eyes. New, blue eyes, she said. Like she was buying shoes." I'd like a pair of new blue eyes." She must have had asked you for them for a very long time, and you hadn't replied" (pg.180)
"I'd like to do something else besides watch you stare in that mirror."
"You're just jealous."
"I am not."
"You are. You whish you had them." (pg.
Bound to be the ugliest thing walking."
"Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: tow ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground." "Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live." (pg. 189-190)
In my final example we'll look at Pecola and her wish to have blue eyes. Pecola believes that if her eyes were blue, making them beautiful in accordance to white standards, her life would be less "ugly", and her problems would go away. I believe Pecola also thinks that if her eyes were blue that her peers and teachers would like her more, making life easier. Pecola also hates the fact that she stares at herself in the mirror attempting to figure out how she became way she is.
"Do you know what you came for? Blue eyes. New, blue eyes, she said. Like she was buying shoes." I'd like a pair of new blue eyes." She must have had asked you for them for a very long time, and you hadn't replied" (pg.180)
"I'd like to do something else besides watch you stare in that mirror."
"You're just jealous."
"I am not."
"You are. You whish you had them." (pg.