Who is a Black feminist? What is Black feminism? Why is someone degraded on the basis of the color they own? These are few of the questions that must have divulged deep into the mind of the readers reading Toni Morrison. Morrison shows how the Blacks had a fabricated identity especially women, this was done to show them as an inferior race. Due to the treatment of Blacks, men experience a vague identity while women’s identity has already been erased. Racism has thus become a ‘natural’ phenomena. The habit of ignoring one whole race is now seen as a graceful gesture. We forget to ponder over the fact that what does this ideology do to the mind, imagination and behavior of the Africans. The black population worked on terror, terror inflicted
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Morrison here addresses the topic of sexual abuse by drawing from the geographical area and the time period when she grew up, which is around 1930s. The girl Pecola in this novel, falls victim to almost everyone she meets or knows, her mother, teachers, schoolmates, neighbors, white shopkeepers, who only look at her ‘ugliness’. But the most unfortunate thing happens when her own father, Cholly Breedlove rapes and gets her pregnant. This leads to the society condemning this small girl, who does not even know what led to her tragic alienation from the outside worlds. Here Morrison carefully condemns not only the act of raping a girl but also the forces of racism that pushed him to this desperate act. But, how far is this act …show more content…
Women are exploited and devoid of their voice to refuse since ages, they are the silent bearers of all the sexual assault that has been exerted upon them. Through her novels she depicts the objectification of women and their commodification by the Whites as well as the Black men. This was the reason why Frieda was molested. However, unlike the society of that time especially the Black society her parents decided to shun away such a man from the society. The striking part of all this was the uncanny reaction of Mr. Henry, despite doing wrong he has the audacity to come back unperturbed. This was probably because he thought that ravishing a teenager or a Black girl is not such a big
Morrison here addresses the topic of sexual abuse by drawing from the geographical area and the time period when she grew up, which is around 1930s. The girl Pecola in this novel, falls victim to almost everyone she meets or knows, her mother, teachers, schoolmates, neighbors, white shopkeepers, who only look at her ‘ugliness’. But the most unfortunate thing happens when her own father, Cholly Breedlove rapes and gets her pregnant. This leads to the society condemning this small girl, who does not even know what led to her tragic alienation from the outside worlds. Here Morrison carefully condemns not only the act of raping a girl but also the forces of racism that pushed him to this desperate act. But, how far is this act …show more content…
Women are exploited and devoid of their voice to refuse since ages, they are the silent bearers of all the sexual assault that has been exerted upon them. Through her novels she depicts the objectification of women and their commodification by the Whites as well as the Black men. This was the reason why Frieda was molested. However, unlike the society of that time especially the Black society her parents decided to shun away such a man from the society. The striking part of all this was the uncanny reaction of Mr. Henry, despite doing wrong he has the audacity to come back unperturbed. This was probably because he thought that ravishing a teenager or a Black girl is not such a big