The novel by Tonni Morrison. Bluest eye is voice of Black people. Blue eyes represent the beauty of white. The Bluest Eye is illusory nature of social construction of beauty. This novel protagonist of character named Pecola who is nine years old, Black girl. She always wants to bluest eye. She believed herself weatherer love and respect. The life of Pecola by making herself believe she is inferior compare to the white populations. Pecola and her mother is painful character in the novel. Pecola is raped by her own father. Her father used to bit her mother. Pecola's mother was working in a house of a white man. "Blue eye" is the imagery eye which indicate the beauty. Here, Pecola is not actually desiring for the Bluest Eye.
She idealized the idea of having blue eyes and believe they are ultimate representation of beauty.
"Each night without fail she prayed for blue eyes".
It is ironically how in the end she looses her eyes in a way that she has driven herself into a state of madness.
It is ironically how in the end she looses her eyes in a way that she has driven herself into a state of madness.
If we apply concept of Fratz Fanon discussed in " Black skin White Masks". So, we can understand the psyche of Black people.
Problem with Black people:
-Social reality.
-Economic reality.
-If there is inferior complex.
-Various attitude that the Negro adopts in contact with white civilization.
Black people always believed that white represent wealth, beauty, intelligence, and virtue.
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