Bluest Eye College Essays Samples For Students

The Bluest Eye: Structure vs. Agency

Toni Morrison’ novel, ‘The Bluest Eye,’ looks at the life of black families living in Ohio in the early 1940s. That was the time when many Black families; whose ancestors were brought from Africa to work in fields by Whites here, had made America their home and sought to live the American dream of freedom and happiness. ‘Bluest Eye,’ as the name suggests, is the color of the eyes of Pecola Breedlove, the young daughter of Pauline and Cholly, who like any other child her age, wanted to live a life of freedom and fun. However, that was not to ...

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare and The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison. Both Macbeth and The Bluest Eye deal with human nature and its striving to reach the best possible state of existence. The goal of Macbeth and his wife is to gain power at all costs which deprives them of humanity. Pecola also wants to improve her life which is why she wishes to have blue eyes. There is much suffering and fight for power in these texts as well as the age all problem of evil which affects all people.
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Mental Illness as an Escape from Cruel Society in The Bluest Eye, Tender is the Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Mental illness in literature is often a way to accentuate eccentricities, make a character seem dangerous, or lend a character a greater sense of tragedy. The best examples, however, involve using the specter of mental illness as a way to reflect on the way society oppresses the Other, and how these people can use it to empower themselves and their own sense of agency. This latter example is highlighted in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, F. Scott Fitzgerald’ ...

The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Tony Morrison and published in 1970. It is a story of high dramatic tension which arises a number of questions regarding the social construction of race and gender, the individual quest of each person to find and define the unique characteristics of his/her traits and maintain them without being disorientated, the way a multicultural society works or is supposed to work so that no inequalities exist and respect towards everybody is achieved. The aim of this essay is to present you with the aspects of this story in such a way that the connections it holds ...

1. Find one good website—other than Wikipedia—about Toni Morrison or The Bluest Eye. Give us the link and explain why you think the website is useful or interesting. What new information did you learned from the site?

Biography.com provides basic information about Toni Morrison and her career (http://www.biography.com/people/toni-morrison-9415590#synopsis). Their entry includes that Morrison won both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize fro literature, the two most prominent writing prizes that a novelist can win. The book we are reading now, The Bluest Eye and also Song of Solomon and Beloved are her most popular novels. According to the entry, Morison has also won, “Nearly every book prize possible.”

Her father was a blue-collar welder but had to work, other jobs in order to support his four children. Given the situation of Claudio in The Bluest Eye, ...

Sula was Toni Morrison’s second novel, and was started in 1970, when second-wave feminists insisted on female solidarity; when labor market demanded women both in the workplace and at home, and when the position of women had not been as polarized by domestic ideology since the Victorian Era. It was a time when feminism ceased to be a middle-class privilege and women from all ethnic backgrounds took up their pens to voice their dissatisfaction. This novel may be considered a product of Morrison’s own curiosity towards female relationships, as she wonders in the Foreword to Sula: “What is friendship between ...

Loss of innocence is no doubt the greatest theme in the novel, The Bluest Eye, a story in which sexual acts are illegal, harsh and extremely hurtful. The novel gives prominence to the aspect of coming of age sexually. The black girls in the novel are brought out as victims that are both socially powerless and sexually abused – they lose their innocence to the situation in which they are growing. Perhaps the most noteworthy example of the loss of innocence in the novel is when Pecola is raped twice by her father Cholly Breedlove. The young girl gets raped just ...

Toni Morrison, the author of The Bluest Eye, writes a masterpiece novel that describes how the standard of beauty has been socially constructed by the dominant race in the US, Whites. This form of social construct has had an effect on the black community where the lighter one’s skin is, the better they look and are assimilated into the society at large. On the other hand, the darker one looks, they are subjected to internalized racism and considered ugly. According to the novel, the American standard of beauty that is socially acceptable is being white and having blue eyes ( ...

Introduction

Women have been displayed in fiction novels to have influential characters that change the course of the narrative. Even when they are not the protagonist, the role they play gives them the ability to give the story a new meaning and even change the original perception that people had in predicting how the story will end. In this discussion, we shall be looking at the role of female characters as we focus on three books, chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia, Bluest eye by Toni Morrison and Metamorphosis by Franz kafka.
In the chronicle of death foretold, the ...