Humans‚ individually‚ are not evil things‚ but as they join society‚ they are dirtied and they corrupt each other. This is the Jean Jacques Rousseau style of looking at humanity. Toni Morrison’s writing in her novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ mirrors this perspective. In The Bluest Eye‚ one of the main subjects discussed in the book is the matter of beauty. Beauty as a whole‚ Morrison argues‚ is one of “...the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”(122). Morrison pursues this idea by having
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York: Library of Congress‚ 1994. Pages 3-9<br><li>Harris‚ Trudier. Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison Knoxville: The university of Tennessee press‚ 1991<br><li>Morrison‚ Toni. Sula. New York: Plume‚ 1973<br><li>Morrison‚ Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Plume‚ 1970<br><li>Stepto‚ Robert. "Conversations with Toni Morrison" Intimate Things in Place: A conversation with Toni Morrison. Massachusetts Review. New York: Library of Congress‚ 1991. Pages 10- 29.
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Violent Women in The Bluest Eye and Beloved The black female characters within Toni Morrison’s novels are often scarred by their surrounding‚ oppressive environments. Whether they are racially exploited‚ sexually violated‚ or emotionally abused‚ these women make choices that cannot be easily understood in order to coexist with these scars. Specifically‚ many of Morrison’s female characters turn to violence. She resists the temptation to portray only positive or idealistic characters‚ but rather
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Race and racism are complicated issues in The Bluest Eye. Unlike typical portrayals of racism‚ involving white hatred against blacks‚ The Bluest Eye primarily explores the issue of racism occurring between people of color. Race is not only defined by the color of one’s skin‚ the shape of one’s features‚ or the texture of one’s hair‚ but also by one’s place of origin‚ socioeconomic class‚ and educational background. "Whiteness" is associated with virtue‚ cleanliness‚ and value‚ while being black is
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Beauty and The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye contributes to the study of the American novel by bringing to light an unflattering side of American history. The story of a young black girl named Pecola‚ growing up in Lorain‚ Ohio in 1941 clearly illustrates the fact that the "American Dream" was not available to everyone. The world that Pecola inhabits adores blonde haired blue eyed girls and boys. Black children are invisible in this world‚ not special‚ less than nothing
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blue eyes early in the novel to convey the idea that sometimes love and beauty is unfairly only reserved for those who are white. Throughout the The Bluest Eye‚ a young African-American girl named Pecola Breedlove is constantly described as “ugly” by other characters‚ including her own mother. Toni Morrison characterizes her as an innocent‚ yet incredibly insecure child. Due to the insults and bullying she endures‚ Pecola greatly dislikes her appearance‚ believing “that if her eyes‚ those eyes that
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The Destructive Force in Beauty Beauty is dangerous‚ especially when you lack it. In the book "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison‚ we witness the effects that beauty brings. Specifically the collapse of Pecola Breedlove‚ due to her belief that she did not hold beauty. The media in the 1940 ’s as well as today imposes standards in which beauty is measured up to; but in reality beauty dwells within us all whether it ’s visible or not there ’s beauty in all; that beauty is unworthy if society brands
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RACIAL SELF LOATHING IN THE BLUEST EYE 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
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Chapter 2 In the novel The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison‚ I have seen that there is more suffering caused by a diseased mind than by a diseased body. The idea of a “diseased mind” is a mental illness while the “diseased body” is a physical illness or injury and though the former is more dominant‚ yet both are displayed by the characters in the novel. The Bluest Eye is Morrison’s first novel and also a very powerful study of how African-American families and particularly women are affected
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In Toni Morrison’s work‚ The Bluest Eye (1970) a young black girl is depicted in search for her true identity and the experiences of frustration she encounters due to her blackness and desire of wanting to be white because of the constant fear of being rejected in her environment. This novel presents insight into the complexity of the black community through the character of Pecola Breedlove. Through Pecola’s character‚ Morrison effectively portrays the dehumanisation of slavery and racism and how
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