The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s maiden work,through which Morrison carried out independent thinking on the question of“What is beauty?”In The Bluest Eye,the image of mixed-blood is characterized as a self-satisfi...The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s maiden work,through which Morrison carried out independent thinking on the question of“What is beauty?”In The Bluest Eye,the image of mixed-blood is characterized as a self-satisfied beautiful girl or lady due to light skin color.However,Morrison shatters their proud aesthetic edifice through satirical techniques.Firstly,this paper starts with the analysis of Shirley Temple on the blue-and-white cup and Mary Jane on candy wrapper as culture goods,in order to reveal the aesthetic standards of the mainstream.Next,through close reading,this paper,taking the example of a high-yellow child Maureen Peal,and the graceful sugar-brown lady Geraldine,makes deep analysis on their sense of superiority and artistic characteristics,and aims to better understand Morrison’s satirical techniques and interpretation of beauty.展开更多
Toni Morrison has a unique status in American literature. She is the winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award, the Pulitzer for Fiction and many other literary awards. She was granted the Nobel Prize for litera...Toni Morrison has a unique status in American literature. She is the winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award, the Pulitzer for Fiction and many other literary awards. She was granted the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, thus becoming the first A^can-American writer to receive this honor. Her first novel The Bluest Eye （1970） tells the story of the bitter and tragic experience suffered by Pecola, a little black girl, and loss of black people＇s self-respect, confidence, value, and culture. The present paper, first of all, gives a brief introduction of the story Then the paper explores the root causes of Pecola＇s tragedy from two aspects： The cause of racial oppression and self-hatred, and the cause of the loss in her independent consciousness. The paper concludes that Pecola is the victim and scapegoat of racial oppression, self-hatred and the loss of her independent consciousness existing in the black community展开更多
As a non-mainstream group with a large proportion in the pluralistic society of the United States,the literary forms of the black and Asian groups have always attracted much attention.The Bluest Eyes and Everything I ...As a non-mainstream group with a large proportion in the pluralistic society of the United States,the literary forms of the black and Asian groups have always attracted much attention.The Bluest Eyes and Everything I Never Told You appeared in different social times and told about different ethnic and cultural backgrounds,they both involved the exclusion of non-mainstream ethnic groups by the mainstream white society and the denial and loss of personal identity of the two different ethnic groups in the face of the mainstream culture.This paper will make a comparative analysis of these two works.By comparing the loss of self-racial identity of the protagonists in the two novels,this paper will make an in-depth discussion of the survival status of African Americans and Asians,and reveal the self-identity loss of black people and Asian people in the mainstream culture.Through comparative analysis,more scholars pay attention to this issue,which is of great practical significance to further understand the literary dynamics of African American and Asian ethnic groups.展开更多
Based on the theory of tragedy in Poetics by Aristotle, this paper analyzes Pecola, a protagonist in The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, from the four aspects of the"completeness"of plot, the"Rever...Based on the theory of tragedy in Poetics by Aristotle, this paper analyzes Pecola, a protagonist in The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, from the four aspects of the"completeness"of plot, the"Reversal"and"Recognition"of plot, the Character and the tragic effect: pity and fear to prove that the theory of tragedy is still practical and conductive to the analysis of literary works even until nowadays.展开更多
文摘The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s maiden work,through which Morrison carried out independent thinking on the question of“What is beauty?”In The Bluest Eye,the image of mixed-blood is characterized as a self-satisfied beautiful girl or lady due to light skin color.However,Morrison shatters their proud aesthetic edifice through satirical techniques.Firstly,this paper starts with the analysis of Shirley Temple on the blue-and-white cup and Mary Jane on candy wrapper as culture goods,in order to reveal the aesthetic standards of the mainstream.Next,through close reading,this paper,taking the example of a high-yellow child Maureen Peal,and the graceful sugar-brown lady Geraldine,makes deep analysis on their sense of superiority and artistic characteristics,and aims to better understand Morrison’s satirical techniques and interpretation of beauty.
文摘Toni Morrison has a unique status in American literature. She is the winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award, the Pulitzer for Fiction and many other literary awards. She was granted the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, thus becoming the first A^can-American writer to receive this honor. Her first novel The Bluest Eye （1970） tells the story of the bitter and tragic experience suffered by Pecola, a little black girl, and loss of black people＇s self-respect, confidence, value, and culture. The present paper, first of all, gives a brief introduction of the story Then the paper explores the root causes of Pecola＇s tragedy from two aspects： The cause of racial oppression and self-hatred, and the cause of the loss in her independent consciousness. The paper concludes that Pecola is the victim and scapegoat of racial oppression, self-hatred and the loss of her independent consciousness existing in the black community
文摘As a non-mainstream group with a large proportion in the pluralistic society of the United States,the literary forms of the black and Asian groups have always attracted much attention.The Bluest Eyes and Everything I Never Told You appeared in different social times and told about different ethnic and cultural backgrounds,they both involved the exclusion of non-mainstream ethnic groups by the mainstream white society and the denial and loss of personal identity of the two different ethnic groups in the face of the mainstream culture.This paper will make a comparative analysis of these two works.By comparing the loss of self-racial identity of the protagonists in the two novels,this paper will make an in-depth discussion of the survival status of African Americans and Asians,and reveal the self-identity loss of black people and Asian people in the mainstream culture.Through comparative analysis,more scholars pay attention to this issue,which is of great practical significance to further understand the literary dynamics of African American and Asian ethnic groups.
文摘Based on the theory of tragedy in Poetics by Aristotle, this paper analyzes Pecola, a protagonist in The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, from the four aspects of the"completeness"of plot, the"Reversal"and"Recognition"of plot, the Character and the tragic effect: pity and fear to prove that the theory of tragedy is still practical and conductive to the analysis of literary works even until nowadays.
