Bluest eye self hatred
The novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison focuses on one of many African American family who migrated from south to north to seek a better life but later became a quest for their individual identity. Since they have moved from farmland to an urban area, there had been a major change in their value system. Where they used to value family love and support more than anything, they now are in materialistic culture which values are standardized by the whites. Difficult living conditions and racism naturally led them to believe the stereotypes about themselves and begin to imagine that whites are superior in beauty, morality, and intelligence. This eventually led the Breedlove family to accept the fact that they are unworthy and starts to hate themselves. This novel tells us how self-hatred could be dangerous and how it became a variable for the downfall for the Breedloves. The worst victim of self-hatred is Pecola Breedlove. She is little black girl with very low self-esteem. Daily mockery from her classmates and adults made her think that she is ugly. "Black e mo. Black e mo. Yadaddsleepnekked. Black e mo...." (Morrison 65). "You nasty little bitch. Get out of my house" (Morrison 92) Eventually, her mean society ha
At the end of the novel, after Cholly rapes her, she goes insane and believes that she has blue eyes. The doll, the symbolism of what an ideal beauty is, made Claudia hate herself for being the complete opposite of those ideals. ' They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw, in fact, support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance'' (Morrison 39). Instead of adoring and cradling the doll, Claudia, in a rage, disassembles and and destroys the doll. Another traumatizing event was when Cholly was forced to have sex while two white policeman mocked and watched. When he finally finds him and tries to explain him who he was, his father shouts " Tell that bitch she got her money. In any case, Pecola found herself only by going insane.
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