not look at her and do not send love back. She thinks‚ ’They are ugly. They are weeds’" (50). The extreme rejection of Pecola’s appearance causes her to feel that she is not authorized to judge the ideals that society has already made. Just like Pauline‚ Pecola believes that it is impossible gain confidence if everyone in her life and her town agrees that she does not fit into that idealization of beauty. Pecola‚ Claudia‚ and Freida all encounter a type of racial prejudice that forces them to tread
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Toni Morrison Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain‚ Ohio‚ on Feb. 18‚ 1931‚ where her parents had moved to escape the problems of southern racism; Morrison’s father‚ George Wofford‚ was a welder and told her folktales of the black community‚ transferring his African-American heritage to another generation (Williams). According to Scott Williams‚ a professor at State University of New York at Buffalo‚ in 1949‚ she entered Howard University in Washington‚ D.C.‚ America’s most distinguished
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afterward as she explains her desire to understand "the damaging internalization of assumptions of immutable inferiority originating in an outside gaze". (1) It is the outside gazes of all the townspeople that help to destroy the character of Pecola Breedlove‚ but more importantly it is the established cultural white norms that inculcate the minds of each of the characters in this story. This is the demon that is really responsible for creating a situation where each of these black characters are supported
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The Hunger for Beauty “If happiness is anticipation with certainty‚ we were happy.” (pg 16) Morrison’s purpose of including Shirley Temple in the novel is to paint a picture of the ideal girl; a figure of conformity. She represented everything that Pecola thought she should be: blue eyes‚ blonde hair- a simply adorable little girl; and everything Maureen Peal felt she was: wealthy‚ light skinned‚ and what people liked to see. The Bluest Eye illuminates true dependence on absolute beauty; the yearn
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prejudice and damage done to individuals.”(Beian 132). We know that Pecola has already been labeled "ugly" because she is a Breedlove‚ but there are other aspects of Pecola’s lack of self-love that lead to the growth of her Body Dysmorphic
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Shirley Temple‚ the consensus that light-skinned Maureen is better looking than other black girls‚ the ideal of white beauty in movies that she’s sees‚ ands Pauline Breedlove’s preference for the little white girl she works for her daughter. Adult women have learned to not like their own bodies‚ and teach this hatred to their children. Mrs. Breedlove shares that the conviction that Pecola is ugly‚ and lighter-skinned Geraldine curses Pecola’s dark skin tome. So Claudia remains free from this worship of
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questioning of conformity is easier to live with than the admittance of unchangeable insecurities. In The Bluest Eye‚ Pecola Breedlove shows that when stripped of any ability to achieve outward conformity‚ the pointlessness of self-hatred forcibly endured will result in extreme methods of escape‚ in her case‚
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Michael Williams Professor Henderson English 1B Sept. 28‚ 2011 The Males of The Bluest Eye Finding good qualities in any of the men of The Bluest Eye are hard to come by. There are many factors that come into play that have shaped the personalities of all of these males. The female characters in the novel endured a lot in coping with the males. Toni Morrison does an exceptional job of painting a vivid picture of the social climate of America in the 1960’s and society’s affects on
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In "The Bluest Eye"‚ author Toni Morrison builds a story around the concept of racial self-hatred and how it comes to exist in the mind of a young child. "The Bluest Eye" deals directly with the individual psychology of the main character‚ Pecola Breedlove. So intense are Pecola’s feelings of self-loathing and inferiority that she would do anything to soothe them. In her young mind‚ she needs a miracle; she needs the bluest eyes. All of the tragedies in this novel can be directed back to one main issue
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of racism in the novel‚ "The Bluest Eye"‚ and the low self-esteem faced by young African American women‚ due to white culture. My research was guided by these ideas of racism and loss of self‚ suffered in the novel‚ by the main character Pecola Breedlove. This text generates many racial and social-cultural problems‚ dealing with the lost identity of a young African American women‚ due to her obsession with the white way of life‚ and her wish to have blue eyes‚ leading to her complete transgression
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