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    scale of beauty. An establishment of an artificial scale of beauty showing how a race and culture values are easily being disallowed by the ideology of being the perfect beauty of a human being. Morrison uses characters such as Claudia Macteer‚ Pauline Breedlove and include child star Shirley Temple to demonstrate how the hegemonic white culture is the factor of the beauty barrier that is within the black (African-American) community. White Beauty was the desired beauty‚ the media contributed

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    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

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    like her‚ she was America’s sweetheart and all ethnicities and races adored her. They loved her for who she was‚ how she looked and what she represented which was beauty and charm. No one anyone wanted to be like Shirley Temple more than Pecola Breedlove. She wanted those blue eyes so she could have that same respect and appreciation. In a daydream‚ Pecola hoped for blue eyes and said “why look at pretty eyed Pecola‚ we mustn’t do things in front of those pretty eyes” (Morrison 46). She wanted to

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    Morrison argues‚ is one of “...the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”(122). Morrison pursues this idea by having the lonely Pauline Breedlove become obsessed with attaining the physical beauty the sees in the movies. Pauline is morphed by the messages that society circulates about what true beauty is. Before her cinematic education‚ Pauline was unaware

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    THE BLUEST EYE The Bluest Eye is a brilliantly written novel revealing the fictional trauma of an eleven-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove. This story takes place in the town of Lorain‚ Ohio during the 1940’s. It is told from the perspective of a young girl named Claudia MacTeer. She and her sister‚ Frieda‚ become witness to the terrible plights Pecola is unintentionally put through. Pecola chooses to hide from her disabling life behind her clouded dream of possessing the ever so cherished

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    Innocence Beauty standards set by society for black women fuels into their insecurities and drives them towards self-hatred. From the start‚ Pecola’s community‚ classmates‚ teachers and parent’s drill into her head that she is unattractive. Pecola Breedlove comes to admit she is ugly as she starts obsessing over the idea of having the bluest eyes to make her attractive. Pecola full-heartedly believes that blue eyes are a necessity for beauty and if she were to by some means acquire them‚ all of her

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    Breedlove and Maureen Peal‚ two characters who have ostensibly accepted their predetermined role in the white-dominated world. However‚ when examined‚ it is clear that their attempts to “get rid of the funkiness‚” (83) are misguided and only accomplish the very opposite of what they search for. In the case of Mrs. Breedlove‚ this is manifested in her employment by a white family and her place among them. In earlier years of her life‚ Mrs. Breedlove was once hopeful and young

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    white people have. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells the story of Pecola Breedlove‚ who wants to be beautiful‚ and searches for blue eyes because she and most of the characters in the book‚ view her as ugly. Through Pecola’s journey for her own set of blue eyes‚ we learn about the main black characters and their quest for something more‚ and how they respond to the dominating white culture and society. Pauline Breedlove‚ who is Pecola’s mother‚ learned about beauty and why she was not beautiful

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    Apart from media the girls in the novel came in contact with this white beauty stereotypes since a very young age: It had begun with Christmas and the gift of dolls. The big‚ the special‚ the loving gift was always a big‚ blue-eyed Baby Doll. From the clucking sounds of adults I knew that the doll represented what hey thought was my fondest wish. (14) Litlle black girls receive white blue-eyed dolls as a gift for christmas and these dolls look nothing like them‚ so as a consequence of this they

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    The Bluest Eye The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ Claudia MacTeer‚ and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as pretty in the end that desire is what finishes her‚ she believes that God gives her blue eyes causing her insanity. She doesn’t have many friends other than Claudia

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