The Shaping of Character of Pecola Through Her Family and Her Society
Dwi Mita Yulianti
1014025007/ English Literature 5A The shaping of character of Pecola through her family and her society
Introduction
The Bluest eyes is the work of Toni Morrison. In this novel we can see that there are many characters that are very interesting to analyze it. Because the characters are very characteristic. We can see at the main character of the bluest eyes, Pecola. Pecola has psychological problem that is very interesting to analyze. So in here I want to analyze the character of Pecola that is shaped from her family and her society.
In here the big question for analyze the changing of Pecola’s character:
What make Pecola want to have blue eyes and get it until she seems crazy?
And for this question, I use close reading and Psychoanalysis for know about the changing of Pecola’s Character and what the psychology problem in herself.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis studies the often times skewed ways in which the mind expresses feelings. Those feelings range from anxiety and fear to hostility and sexual desire, and they can originate in a range of sources, from the traumas of personal history to the instincts of the body.
Psychoanalysis is also concerned with the dynamics of interpersonal relations with the way the self is formed through interactions with its familial and sociocultural environment. Depending on the school of psychoanalysis one heeds, the study of mind’s operation in literature should be concerned either with the unconscious and the instincts or with the family, personal history, and the social world that shapes the self.
Several reading strategies emerge from these psychoanalytic theories. A text might be read for the way unconscious material manifests itself through indirect means- images or descriptions that evoke psychological issues. The relation between characters might be studied for what they disclose about family dynamics and the way such dynamics shape selves.
A psychoanalysis reading might also attend to such
1014025007/ English Literature 5A The shaping of character of Pecola through her family and her society
Introduction
The Bluest eyes is the work of Toni Morrison. In this novel we can see that there are many characters that are very interesting to analyze it. Because the characters are very characteristic. We can see at the main character of the bluest eyes, Pecola. Pecola has psychological problem that is very interesting to analyze. So in here I want to analyze the character of Pecola that is shaped from her family and her society.
In here the big question for analyze the changing of Pecola’s character:
What make Pecola want to have blue eyes and get it until she seems crazy?
And for this question, I use close reading and Psychoanalysis for know about the changing of Pecola’s Character and what the psychology problem in herself.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis studies the often times skewed ways in which the mind expresses feelings. Those feelings range from anxiety and fear to hostility and sexual desire, and they can originate in a range of sources, from the traumas of personal history to the instincts of the body.
Psychoanalysis is also concerned with the dynamics of interpersonal relations with the way the self is formed through interactions with its familial and sociocultural environment. Depending on the school of psychoanalysis one heeds, the study of mind’s operation in literature should be concerned either with the unconscious and the instincts or with the family, personal history, and the social world that shapes the self.
Several reading strategies emerge from these psychoanalytic theories. A text might be read for the way unconscious material manifests itself through indirect means- images or descriptions that evoke psychological issues. The relation between characters might be studied for what they disclose about family dynamics and the way such dynamics shape selves.
A psychoanalysis reading might also attend to such
Cited: Bharati, Megha, L. M. Joshi. “Race, Class and Gender Bias as Reflected in Toni Morrision’s First Novel The Bluest Eye.” Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies 1(2009): 37-45. Print. Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eyes. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2002. Ryan, Michael. Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction. Berlin: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Print.