"The horror at the heart of her yearning was exceeded only by the evil of fulfilment" .
The text The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a text based upon the fate of a little girl, Pecola. Pecola acts as a scapegoat for the black society of America, as their void in the place of culture explodes into a rank distaste for themselves. Pecola suffers this twisted perspective of beauty, and in doing so absorbs the anger of the disorientated black community. Amongst this accumulation of anger Pecola finds a way out of "ugliness", and that is in "Blue eyes". These "blue eyes" them become Pecolas goal, and when she eventually her goal, she becomes a victim of her own society, "stepping over into madness".
The inwardly directed hatred of the black community comes from beauty, "Probably [one of] the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.". This black society with no culture, and thus no ideal of beauty, a by-product of culture, indulges in servility by adopting ideals of the ever present oppressive hand of white America. This overbearing culture of capitalism and values, ground down after years of being the oppressors, educates this adrift black society in their own seemingly wise judgement of beauty. This learned culture does not include black beauty in its ideals, so an internal hatred broods amongst the black community. This internal anger over the "ugliness" of themselves, and the continual distaste they feel when seeing their own ugly kin, must bubble over. When this point is reached, victims arise. Pecola serves as one of these victims. Local black boys call her "black e mo", for what they know is that to be black is to be ugly.
Pecola as a young girl, knows of her "ugliness", her whole family do "they believed they were ugly". She knows of her ugliness purely because she knows she is black. Pecola in her inchoate state discovers a way to escape this "blackness". Pecolas logic tells her that she needs to get "blue eyes".
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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is the story of young black girl growing up in a small town in Ohio, during the 1940's. Pecola Breedlove's self-loathing nature and eventual descent into madness is a product of the constant negative reinforcement that she received from her surroundings. ... Maureen Peal comes to Pecola's school in the winter, and has a profound influence on what Pecola thinks of herself. ... Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye gives the reader many shocking insights into the Black American family during the Depression, but perhaps the main idea to take awa...
Pecola Breedlove Passive, trivialized, envious Running, wanting, watching Daughter. ... Fighting, drinking, seducing Abusive, impulsive, vulnerable Charles (Cholly) Breedlove In the novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, the protagonist was Pecola Breedlove and the antagonist was her father, Cholly Breedlove. ... Because of Cholly's color and the troubles he endured as a young child, he took all his sadness out on Pecola, which was why both he and Pecola opposed one another. ... She had driven herself into a state of madness just for a pair of blue eyes; in her mind that...
The ideas and views present in The Bluest Eye are related to beauty and what makes one beautiful. ... In the opening of The Bluest Eye, the passage from the Dick and Jane story, becomes a representation of an ideal white person's life. ... The decline into nonsense also parallels Pecola's decline into insanity. ... Eye imagery fills the scene, as the shopkeeper cannot "see" Pecola. ... In the end, Pecola's need to be accepted by society by being white, and societies neglect and hatred towards Pecola, leads her into the madness and shelter of her own abused corrupted mind. ...
The Bluest Eye novel concentrates on the life of three young girls: Pecola Breedlove, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer. The main character is Pecola. ... Pecola withdraws herself from the real world into madness, believing that her treasured wish has been fulfilled and that she has the bluest eyes. The Bluest Eye tells a sad story of Pecola Breedlove, who doesn't want gold or to be rich but wants only love and care from her family and society. She strikes out for her ideal of beauty, which is Shirley Temple, a white girl, blond haired, blue-eyed. ...
Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... She wants the bluest eye. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking about how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girls. ... Pecola passes some dandelions going into Mr. ...
The Eyes of Society In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the central theme is society's negative influence on the individual. ... It is during this time that the reader can see her starting her journey to madness. ... In The Bluest Eye, Claudia MacTeer provides a child's point of view-sometimes from an adult perspective while an omniscient voice relates information unknown by Claudia, like Pecola's thoughts. ... For example, the name of the novel, The Bluest Eye, is meant to get the reader thinking about how the desire for blue eyes dominated society and ruine...
Toni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... She wants the bluest eye. ... The narrative structure of The Bluest Eye is important in revealing just how pervasive and destructive social racism is. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking about how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girls. ...
