A Study on Status of Women in Black Writing ( with special reference to Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest eye’) P.KARTHI Assistant Professor of English Gobi Arts and Science College(Autonomous) Gobichettipalayam. E-mail:- con2karthi@gmail.com Toni Morrisons ‘The Bluest Eye’ a neo- slave narrative is concerned with the themes of racial exploitation during the world war
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unspeakable experience in the white patriarchal world. Pecola‚ the heroine in The Bluest Eye suffers what Philomela does‚ for she is raped by her own father. Moreover‚ she suffers from emotional rape from her mother. Pecola’s father Cholly Breedlove has a traumatic childhood when he is abandoned by his parents and his is forced to perform sexually for two white hunters. Then‚ Cholly regards his black identity as inferior and stigmatized because of the disgraceful exposure of himself as weak
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Characters * Pecola Breedlove: She is an eleven year old black girl who believes she is ugly. She wishes for blue eyes to make her feel beautiful which is granted at the cost of her sanity. * Claudia McTeer: The narrator for parts of the novel. She is a very strong minded nine year old who fights for good causes. She is a stable force throughout the story. * Minor Characters * Cholly Breedlove: The always intoxicated father of Pecola and husband of Pauline. He experienced traumatic
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Carter 3 Taylor Carter December 12‚ 2014 A6 Krygier The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye is a tragic story about a young girl black girl‚ named Pecola. Pecola’s life is told from the point of views of herself‚ Claudia‚ and an omniscient narrator. Throughout The Bluest Eye‚ Pecola is told she is ugly from a very young age. She believes that the only way she can be beautiful and accepted is if she has blue eyes like the white actress‚ Shirley Temple‚ or the white dolls she gets every year for Christmas.
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first takes in a young boarder named Pecola Breedlove after her father Cholly has attempted to burn down the family home‚ but she is soon reunited with her own family despite their hardships. The MacTeer family are essential to the novel because one of the young daughters‚ Frieda‚ seems to suffer from a much less severe racism than most other characters‚ going as far as to destroy a white doll she is given. Cholly drinks‚ and Cholly and Pecola’s mother Pauline are physically abusive towards each other
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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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