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Causes of Pecola’s Tragedy in The Bluest Eye
WANG Xiao-yan, LIU Xi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2014.02.002
Changchun University, Changchun, China
Toni Morrison has a unique status in American literature. She is the winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award, the Pulitzer for Fiction and many other literary awards. She was granted the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, thus becoming the first African-American writer to receive this honor. Her first novel The Bluest Eye (1970) tells the story of the bitter and tragic experience suffered by Pecola, a little black girl, and loss of black people’s self-respect, confidence, value, and culture. The present paper, first of all, gives a brief introduction of the story. Then the paper explores the root causes of Pecola’s tragedy from two aspects: The cause of racial oppression and self-hatred, and the cause of the loss in her independent consciousness. The paper concludes that Pecola is the victim and scapegoat of racial oppression, self-hatred and the loss of her independent consciousness existing in the black community.
The Bluest Eye, causes, self-hatred, loss of independent consciousness
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