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    the bluest eyes

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    The Bluest Eyes Shirley Temple‚ the little princess. Everything a young girl hoped and dreamed to be. The perfectly blond coifed hair‚ porcelain skin and bright ocean blue eyes. Thinking of her was enough for every young girl hope and aspire to be just like Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple in the Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison represents the American ideal girl and a representation of the stigma related to not being white in a society. In one way or another all of the characters in the Bluest Eyes

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    The Bluest Eye

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    The Bluest Eye- Essay #1 The concept of beauty is portrayed throughout Morrison’s The Bluest Eye by analyzing the novella’s literary elements such as setting‚ character‚ and theme. Throughout the novella there’s a relation between beauty and the setting‚ character‚ and theme that relates to culture and beauty. The setting takes place in the 1940’s where beauty depended on the wealth and physical traits of an individual. As a character of dark color‚ Pecola grasps onto the white standard of beauty

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    The Search for Blue Eyes Racialised Beauty in The Bluest Eye Though there have been many steps towards equality in today’s society‚ America‚ as a whole‚ will not reach it until races could be equal in everything. But America is still a race dominated culture‚ and mostly a white dominated culture. In this culture‚ society looks up to a racialised beauty‚ where beauty is defined in the terms of white beauty‚ or the physical features most white people have. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells

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    the bluest eye

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    The Bluest Eye In her novel The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful‚ which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected

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    Adult women have learned to hate the blackness of their own bodies. The person that suffers the most from the white beauty standards is Pecola. Pecola wants blue eyes not because it conforms to white beauty standards but because she wants to view different sights and pictures to escape reality. To Pecola‚ the color of one’s skin and eyes do influence the way one is treated. Pecola is beautiful because she is human‚ but this beauty is invisible to the community who has identified beauty with whiteness

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    Toni Morrison

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    at Howard University and caring for her two children‚ Morrison wrote her first novel‚ The Bluest Eye (1970); this book was partly based on Morrison’s story written for a writer’s group in 1966 (Williams). According to Williams‚ then she wrote seven other novels: Sula‚ Song of Solomon‚ Tar Baby‚ Beloved‚ Paradise‚ Love‚ and A Mercy. I read Morrison’s speech called “Cinderella’s Stepsisters” and the Bluest Eye novel. These two pieces of writing show the nature of cultural conflict as it happens through

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    Racialized Beauty

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    Toni Morrison’s first novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ was published in 1970. “In the novel‚ Morrison challenges Western standards of beauty and demonstrates that the concept of beauty is socially constructed. Morrison also recognises that if whiteness is used as a standard of beauty or anything else‚ then the value of blackness is diminished and this novel works to subvert that tendency.” (Sugiharti‚ “Racialized Beauty: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”). Her goal in writing the novel was to make a statement

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    Standards of Beauty

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    Standards of Beauty: A Look at How Conformity Establishes Identity How do you define beauty? Is it something that is acquired? Or is it a privilege that is bestowed on certain individuals? The society within The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ establishes a certain standard to which its members must conform to. This conformity is also present in Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style. His novel serves as a reflection of today’s society with the presence of mass media and their guidelines

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    Parental guidance and support are key components of the foundation of a child’s growth and development. Without either‚ a child cannot grow and develop properly. In her novel The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison examines the effect of different mothers on their respective children through the characters of Mrs. MacTeer and Mrs. Breedlove. Throughout the novel‚ both characters express their thoughts and feelings through words‚ with Mrs. MacTeer having a few fussy soliloquies and Mrs. Breedlove having a few

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    The Bluest Eye Analysis

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    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 of conforming to an ultimate standard of it. The usage of Shirley Temple exemplifies this desired beauty and in

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