Flora and Fairuza: The Symbols within the novel, The Bluest Eye
The definition of beauty is as indistinguishable as the definition of ugliness. However this has not stopped the human race from searching for the true meaning of both, and moreover obtain this beauty for the purpose of social standards. The same can be said within the characters of the following novel. The novel, The Bluest Eye by author Toni Morrison uses symbols to capture the emotional trauma within the African American community, effectively proving that their true concept of beauty will never be attainable, if the community possess self hate for each other, but are unified in their own communal qualities.
Initially, the symbol of blue eyes represents the emotional trauma …show more content…
For instance, towards the conclusion of the novel, where Claudia reflects upon the aftermath of Pecola’s baby’s death, the death of her father, the departure of her brother, and the community isolating her mother and herself to the edge of town, the town still stood to together unified to “astride [Pecola’s] ugliness” to make themselves feel beautiful (205). This explains the towns unification to identify Pecola as the outlier and essentially the ugly duckling. The first person point of view in which this part of the novel is told the reader discover that The town used Pecola’s broken life to make themselves feel whole, and her ruined innocence to make themselves feel pure. And by the end of this, the African American community is unified, but never growing to their true potential. One major example of this is as Claudia closes the novel by blaming the town for Pecola’s position in the town, and explaining that the “Sunflowers” of Claudia’s town are too late to grow, too late to show real beauty (206). Which means that the sunflowers are a representation of the people that make up Claudia’s town, and being too late essentially means that their actions are so irrevocable that the every generation that is planted in a barren community will be never grow to understand their own beauty and never attain their own perception of beauty. Due to this being told through Claudia’s point of view it further expresses that the sunflowers is every African American man, woman, and child grown together to have a sole purpose to judge and bring down each other as they did with the young sunflower that was Pecola
The definition of beauty is as indistinguishable as the definition of ugliness. However this has not stopped the human race from searching for the true meaning of both, and moreover obtain this beauty for the purpose of social standards. The same can be said within the characters of the following novel. The novel, The Bluest Eye by author Toni Morrison uses symbols to capture the emotional trauma within the African American community, effectively proving that their true concept of beauty will never be attainable, if the community possess self hate for each other, but are unified in their own communal qualities.
Initially, the symbol of blue eyes represents the emotional trauma …show more content…
For instance, towards the conclusion of the novel, where Claudia reflects upon the aftermath of Pecola’s baby’s death, the death of her father, the departure of her brother, and the community isolating her mother and herself to the edge of town, the town still stood to together unified to “astride [Pecola’s] ugliness” to make themselves feel beautiful (205). This explains the towns unification to identify Pecola as the outlier and essentially the ugly duckling. The first person point of view in which this part of the novel is told the reader discover that The town used Pecola’s broken life to make themselves feel whole, and her ruined innocence to make themselves feel pure. And by the end of this, the African American community is unified, but never growing to their true potential. One major example of this is as Claudia closes the novel by blaming the town for Pecola’s position in the town, and explaining that the “Sunflowers” of Claudia’s town are too late to grow, too late to show real beauty (206). Which means that the sunflowers are a representation of the people that make up Claudia’s town, and being too late essentially means that their actions are so irrevocable that the every generation that is planted in a barren community will be never grow to understand their own beauty and never attain their own perception of beauty. Due to this being told through Claudia’s point of view it further expresses that the sunflowers is every African American man, woman, and child grown together to have a sole purpose to judge and bring down each other as they did with the young sunflower that was Pecola