Self-hatred in the Bluest Eye After reading the Bluest Eye‚ the readers will be impressed by the atmosphere of depression and anxiety. One main reason for that is the self-hatred in the story‚ which is the black people’s common psychological condition. Almost each black people in the story have the feeling of self-hatred. And the self-hatred deep inside their heart usually revealed in different indirect ways. For instance‚ Claudia could not help dismembering and destroying the doll with
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about the cat than she cares about Junior. “Get out‚” she said her voice quiet.” you nasty little black… Get out my house.” This is what she said after Junior told her Pecola killed their cat. Pg.109 Polly Mrs. Breedlove-Pecola’s mom. She works for a white family and a little white girl can call her Polly while even Pecola can’t do that or while other black people may not even do that. This is Polly talking to the girl. She treats the girl as her superior even though she is the adult. The
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Neurotic Human behavior: a psychoanalytic approach to the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Abstract: This study is a psychoanalytic approach to the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The previous research of psychoanalysis to this novel was always by using Freudian psychology. Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis focuses on determinism that human Nature is not flexible. But he doesn’t emphasize much on one’s self-realization and self growth. Freud was pessimistic and believes that neurosis is present in every
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The Bluest Eye is a complex novel written by Toni Morrison‚ an African American literary theorist. Morrison evokes a society still plagued by the premise of slavery and the exposes this mode of white inferiority through The Bluest Eye. “Wicked people love wickedly‚ violent people love violently‚ weak people love weakly‚ stupid people love stupidly‚ but the love of a free man is never safe”‚ Morrison endows these last couple of sentences with a lyrical quality that makes the readers truly understand
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been challenged and banned by school officials for containing what is deemed to be inappropriate material. These novel all have one thing in common‚ they make some people uncomfortable. One such novel is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. This novel is considered to be an extraordinary work of literature and of great learning value for students. However‚ the novel has been a source of great controversy because of its graphic
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[REDACTED] 3/19/2013 [REDACTED] Marginalized Society in The Bluest Eye Within any sort of organized group‚ division is inevitable. Throughout history‚ civilizations have felt the need to distinguish between rich and poor‚ Pagans and Christians‚ black and white. Society takes these labels further and uses them to define people‚ as individuals and as smaller subgroups. Through these labels‚ society separates people based on preconceived notions‚ automatically coloring its perception of them
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issues such as affirmative action‚ police brutality against minorities and the history of slavery and the rising resentment against immigrants (http://www.globalissues.org). Here the writers point out about the racism that is occurred in novel of The Bluest Eye‚ where racism is one of the biggest issue occurred in the novel. Since the history of black peole related to the slavery that involved their ancestors‚ the racism that happened 1965 still clasified black as the lower class in American society.
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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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The bluest eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel took place majorly in the 1940s Lorain‚ Ohio when racism was still predominant and after the great depression. The Bluest Eye centers around Pecola Breedlove a young black girl who believes that whiteness is beauty and inherently denies the beauty of her own blackness. The novel intricately and blatantly narrates the lives of African-Americans during the 40s leading well into the 70s and even till now. Pecola’s dream of having this standard
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It would not be an exaggeration to call this poem opaque‚ though it may seem plain enough. And it would not be an exaggeration either to call this poem plain‚ though it may seem opaque enough. The poem’s structure is plain‚ an enumeration‚ far from mechanical‚ of the life aspects of one night‚ an idealized night‚ an archetypal one‚ that allows for a great multiplicity of life acts associated with it. The precondition‚ the one precondition for such a night to take place is that this must happen "whilst
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