DESMEMBRAMENTO E CURA EM THE BLUEST EYE

Mother is a bonus bestowed upon humanity by Almighty Allah as she can claim all the calamities for her children to make them safe. The importance of mother as suggested by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) If I (PBUH) would have been in prayer (Salat) and she (Mother) had called me, I (PBUH) would have left my prayer to listen to her first and then I would have completed my prayer. Here it shows the essence of mother, as she is the source for a man to claim the heaven. Nissim Ezekiel in one of his poems says, ‘Thank God! Scorpion picked on me and spared my children’ this shows that she can suffer the pain of poison to make safety of her children possible. African motherhood is a paradigm for mothers all over the world. These black mothers have suffered sexual abuse during the period of slavery to save their wards. They worked very hard and even sometimes murdered their children to save them from slavery and sexual assault from the rich white masters. Same thing can be seen in the novels of this study. This research paper will explore the circumstances that compelled mothers to sacrifice their wards and suffer the pangs for whole life. Importance of motherhood will be explored here.

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Racial Conflicts in Tony Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: A Literary Analysis

Scholars Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i11.003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 553-559

Author(s):

Sujana Suvin

Keyword(s):

Literary Analysis ◽

Bluest Eye ◽

Racial Conflicts

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Causes of Pecola’s Tragedy in The Bluest Eye

Journal of Literature and Art Studies ◽

10.17265/2159-5836/2014.02.002 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

WANG Xiao-yan ◽

LIU Xi

Keyword(s):

Bluest Eye

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Hegemonic Domination of White over Black in “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

sjesr ◽

10.36902/sjesr-vol3-iss4-2020(29-34) ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 29-34

Author(s):

Irfan Mehmood ◽

Dr. Komal Ansari ◽

Dr. M. K. Sangi

Keyword(s):

Black Community ◽

Toni Morrison ◽

White Men ◽

The Other ◽

White People ◽

Power Politics ◽

Her Family ◽

Safe Delivery ◽

Bluest Eye ◽

Self Reliance

Every human being is beautiful with his own colour and appearance. No colour makes one beautiful but the white people of America have propagated the idea of white beauty as a tool of their politics to show themselves superior to the blacks. They focused on the colour because to be white for a black is unattainable as it is biological. They also tried to create self-hatred among the blacks by spreading the white ideology. They hegemonized the blacks to accept the concept of white beauty by using advertisements, media, actors and education. They also forced the blacks to be considered as ugly creating the least opportunities in the work places for the black community of America; alienating them from the society and torturing them both mentally and physically. As in The Bluest Eye, Pecola and her family are the worst victims of white men’s politics. Pecola together with her family members is both mentally and physically tortured and tormented to accept the white ideology. However, Pecola and her mother have accepted the white ideology and Pecola has mostly desired to get the bluest eye. On the other hand, Claudia resisted against the white men and their ideology. At the end, Pecola has accepted the baby of Cholly Breedlove as a token of love and self-reliance and both Claudia and Frieda wish to have the safe delivery of it. Therefore, in this article I would like to show that how the white men employed their evil intention of using the colour for dominating the blacks in America as a part of power politics, and also show black people’s reaction toward the white ideology with reference to The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

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