Pauline Breed love gets a chance to speak in first person near the middle of the novel, in a section divided between third person narrator and first person narrator, she gets to address the reader directly …show more content…
Her lunacy is not an escape from the idealized forms of white life, in her insanity, she feels most fully the force of white constructions of beautiy, even as the normal flow of human interaction and language cease to have meaning for her. Morrison uses painful irony to remind people that pecola's madness is a fault of her society.
Morrison is influenced by hybridity in her novel "the bluest eye". Hybridity refers to any mixing of western and eastern culture , it most commonly refers to colonial subjects from Africa and Asia who have found the balance between eastern and western cultural attributes. According to Homi Bhabha, the third place is the place for multicultural communities where injustice and oppression are executed. Morrison proves that third place is a far place and no one can reach to this place easily. She also proves that pecola reaches to madness and could not reach to third place.
In addition to, Morrison is influenced by the idea of other and orientalism, otherness which is an approach that divides the world into two binary opposites as white versus black or modern versus traditional. Morrison manages to apply the four elements that involved the creation stereotyping which are generalization, essentialization, oversimplification, and repetition. Morrison succeeded in showing the fixed image for pecola's family that claims to reflect their reality without necessarily truly doing so as "they are …show more content…
The relationship between occident and orient is a relationship of power, of domination of varying degrees of complex hegemony. Morrison exists pecola's as servants in this novel to prove the idea of orientalism.
Finally, "the bluest eye" provides an extended depiction of the ways in which interiorized white beauty superiority that shapes the lives of black people . Including a message, that whiteness is superior in everywhere and every time and every era. The person who suffers most from white beauty criterion is pecola. She links beauty with love and believes that if she gets blue eyes, the cruelty in her life will be removed. Morrison suggests that pecola's family accepts this enforced feeling of ugliness and lack of self-worth without asking its source and it is this accepting of self-hatred, a hatred that comes from outside the family is one of the biggest problem faced the family. This novel reflects the society by presenting characters who hate themselves because of what they are told they are, which sustains