American Literature - Novel The Bluest Eye Written by Toni Morrison

‘The Bluest Eye ‘mirrors a realistic picture of the black community in America by a American writer Toni Morrison., who received the highest international honor for her unique contribution in literature. She is the first African American lady to receive such honor of literature. Also such as a outstanding novelist and The Nobel Prize for her contribution to literature.’ The Bluest Eye’

Was published in 1970.

When we read the novel that many theme was affected to our society. It presents the disappointing reality of a suffering that lives in almost every time in inferiority complex. Some of black not only hate other black people but also hate themselves. The story has been well designed by the author. 

Pecola is the protagonist of’ The Bluest Eye’. but despite this central role she is passive and remains a mysterious character. Morrison explain in the novel afterwards that she purposely tell Pecola’s story from other point of view to keep pecola’s dignity and to some extent, her mystery infect. Pecola is a weak and delicate child. When the novel begins and by the end of the novel, she has been completely destroyed by violence. First she wants to learn how to get people to love her; second when forced to witness her parents brutal fights, she is simply want to disappear.  

Further in this novel a very significant role to symbolism. Here most of symbols are connected with cruelty or violence or appropriated to characters. ‘The Bluest Eye’ presents several symbols use of effective way to examine the moral or much other point. Some example symbolism as such…

The novel begin with a sentence from a statement..

‘HERE IS THE HOUSE’

The homes not only indicate socioeconomic status in this novel, but also symbolize the emotional situation and values of the character that inhabit them. 

In short ‘The Bluest Eye’ present multi themes and successfully justifies each theme may be about standard of beauty ‘whiteness’ or about sexual imitation and growing desire New York time quotes,

“The Bluest eye is an inquiry into the reason why beauty gets wasted in this country.

The beauty in this case is black; the wasting is done by a cultural engine

that seems have been designed to madder possibilities.”