With the evident aspects of beauty expressed within the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and its transformation within societal perception, it is apparent that black women have been seen as infinitesimal and wholly “invisible” in the eyes of society. Written in the late 60s, The Bluest Eye takes a sentiment into the lives of young black girls and how society’s perception can create devastating impressions on how they see themselves as well as the world itself. Morrison successfully creates a story around one interesting character and thus creates a transformation from what is to what could be. The word “invisible” is used to illustrate how the girls within the story felt as if they were imperceptible in the eyes of the world around them
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She is bright, amiable and is brought up in a loving home but she is still able to see and feel the discrepancies within society in relation to the injustice that the standards of beauty bring about. She states, “But before that I had felt at that time a stranger, more frightening thing than hatred for all the Shirley Temples of the world” (19). She had felt out casted by the society around her because they had put young white girls on such a high pedestal she felt overshadowed in her own body, thus bringing about her later hatred for idolized images of these girls. The term “stranger” is used to show how although Claudia had one of the better familial lifestyles, on the inside she felt alienated because she knew the truth as to what people perceived as cute or beautiful. In another perception of Claudia, Salvatore states, “Although Claudia is subjected to maternal shaming and she comes to internalize white contempt for her blackness, she still feels in a deep-rooted way that she is loved and secure” (159). Therefore, exemplifying that the significant difference between Pecola’s and Claudia’s views, was primarily due to their personal treatments by their families. The term “deep-rooted” is used because both characters struggle with self-love in one way or another but with Claudia she knows and believes her family is her support …show more content…
In order to show how invisible these women are to the world, she constructed a story around a completely visible character that ironically felt like she was not. To emphasize the insignificance the black community felt, she creates an even more imperceptible character, Pecola, who is a black, young and girl, thus creating the best representation of whom can be manipulated by society. Roye expresses a deep analysis into Morrison’s writing by stating that, The Bluest Eye brings attention to the “underdogs of racist social order,” (212) exploring the aspects that Morrison wants to emit the hitherto nonexistent into full view. The term “underdogs” is used to illustrate how these young black girls are really seen or how they feel, there was a class order that depended on race and these girls were at the bottom of it. That is why it is perfect for Morrison to create a character like Pecola because not only does she fulfill the personality and insecurities of these “peripheral girls,” (214) but being an outcast she becomes the grim results of society’s
She is bright, amiable and is brought up in a loving home but she is still able to see and feel the discrepancies within society in relation to the injustice that the standards of beauty bring about. She states, “But before that I had felt at that time a stranger, more frightening thing than hatred for all the Shirley Temples of the world” (19). She had felt out casted by the society around her because they had put young white girls on such a high pedestal she felt overshadowed in her own body, thus bringing about her later hatred for idolized images of these girls. The term “stranger” is used to show how although Claudia had one of the better familial lifestyles, on the inside she felt alienated because she knew the truth as to what people perceived as cute or beautiful. In another perception of Claudia, Salvatore states, “Although Claudia is subjected to maternal shaming and she comes to internalize white contempt for her blackness, she still feels in a deep-rooted way that she is loved and secure” (159). Therefore, exemplifying that the significant difference between Pecola’s and Claudia’s views, was primarily due to their personal treatments by their families. The term “deep-rooted” is used because both characters struggle with self-love in one way or another but with Claudia she knows and believes her family is her support …show more content…
In order to show how invisible these women are to the world, she constructed a story around a completely visible character that ironically felt like she was not. To emphasize the insignificance the black community felt, she creates an even more imperceptible character, Pecola, who is a black, young and girl, thus creating the best representation of whom can be manipulated by society. Roye expresses a deep analysis into Morrison’s writing by stating that, The Bluest Eye brings attention to the “underdogs of racist social order,” (212) exploring the aspects that Morrison wants to emit the hitherto nonexistent into full view. The term “underdogs” is used to illustrate how these young black girls are really seen or how they feel, there was a class order that depended on race and these girls were at the bottom of it. That is why it is perfect for Morrison to create a character like Pecola because not only does she fulfill the personality and insecurities of these “peripheral girls,” (214) but being an outcast she becomes the grim results of society’s