Pecola breedlove

the depictions of white beauty icons, Morrison’s black characters lose themselves to self-hatred. They try to obliterate their heritage, and eventually like Pecola Breedlove, the child protagonist, who yearns for blue eyes, have no recourse except madness. This assignment focusses on double consciousness and its devastating effects on Pecola. Double consciousness is a term coined by W.E.B. DuBois to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets. He describes double consciousness

In the last season "summer", Pecola becomes pregnant. Claudia and Frieda want Pecola's baby to live in order to validate their own blackness and to oppose the universal love for white baby dolls. The anger reaches Pecola to madness because Pauline also does not believe that Pecola is an innocent sinister of Cholly's drunken rape. Pecola's schism has created an imaginary friend for her because she has no real friend. Her imaginary friend represents an escape from reality as the researcher thinks

evokes serious ontological questions for the reader, particularly as it relates to Pecola 's position in her community. As a pariah, she operates both at the margins and the center of her community. The sheer horror evoked by her presence in the community forces people to regard her as absent. The community 's regarding Pecola as invisibly present is a defense mechanism that shields it from the lure of decadence that Pecola and her family represent. As a result, the people who glamorize and prolong her

These discourses are based on stereotypes which in the novel take the form of the canon of white beauty, being the blue eyes the epitomized image. In order to make the reader aware of this fact, Morrison brings a powerless and voiceless figure, Pecola Breedlove, to the centre of attention in order to condemn why and how she considers rejection (of herself, and it implies her identity too) as legitimate. As a consequence, she is unable to cope with reality and, therefore, she needs to construct an invented

blonde haired woman. For Pecola Breedlove, blue eyes, blonde hair, and pale white skin is the definition of beauty; however, for Claudia MacTeer, blue eyes, blonde hair, and pale white skin are oppressive cultural standards. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison uses specific descriptions of Claudia and Pecola’s upbringings to juxtapose how the love and affection Claudia receives from her family keeps her sane while the lack of it ultimately drives Pecola insane. Both Claudia and Pecola live in the same town

Cholly Breedlove is the Husband of Pauline Breedlove, and father to Pecola and Sammy Breedlove. He is an alcoholic who doesn’t care for his family, and abuses of his wife. This behavior can be traced back to when Cholly was young. His mother abandoned him and was then raised by his aunt, who eventually

Life at the periphery: The Bluest Eye, Vanitha P, mentions how Pecola sat for long hours looking in the mirror, “trying to discover the secret of the ugliness”. Pecola thinks she has did something wrong and sees that everyone in her eyes thinks she ugly. But it comes from her family thinking that they all were ugly. Pecola emotional thinks getting these blue eyes would not just help her look pretty but see a different prospective of what she sees and what people would see in her. With her seating

self-esteem within the Breedlove family, as they are revealed to perceive others and themselves the same way as the rest of society. The Breedlove family is

but others, to the standards of the white American standards of things such as beauty. The characters, Pecola and Pauline, are the major characters in the novel and are, as written by Morrison (1970), the ciphers of the way African Americans treated each-other and themselves in a time of racial oppression

and criticize different races by that compelling the affection of the domineering group by attaining the constancy of its eminence over less popular groups viewed by society. The Bluest Eye depicts the story of an eleven-year-old black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who desires have blue eyes on the grounds that she sees herself and is viewed by most of the characters in this novel as “ugly.” The standard of “beauty” that her peers aspire is personified by the young white child actress, Shirley Temple,