Abstract By presenting Pecola Breedlove’s freaky desire to the blue eyes in The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison used her exquisite and sharp literal expression to reveal that it was the White-dominant culture eroded the Black’s spirit and made them suffer from the racial and gender discrimination。 Furthermore, this work also showed that under the strong persecution of African traditional culture and special pubertal culture, which made the black women lose their freedom and right so that they had no choice but to suffer their tragedies。 The black women were too eager to achieve the White’s cultural values that they experienced psychic distortion and schizobulia, and that was why the tragedy happened。94101

Keywords: the black women’s tragedy; racial discrimination; gender discrimination; African traditional culture

摘要通过《最蓝的眼睛》中的主人公佩克拉对蓝眼睛的病态追求，托妮·莫里森用她尖锐又细腻的文笔揭示了正是来自白人的强势文化侵蚀了黑人的心灵并且使他们遭受了种族和性别歧视。此外，这部作品也展现了在非洲传统文化和特殊的青春期文化的迫害下，黑人女性失去了自由和权利，不得不依照传统文化遵从她们的悲惨命运。黑人女性过度的追求白人文化的价值观使她们遭受了心灵扭曲和人格分裂，酿成悲剧。

毕业论文关键词：黑人女性的悲剧；种族歧视；性别歧视；非洲传统文化

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 1

3。 A Brief Introduction to Racial Discrimination、Gender Discrimination and African Traditional Culture 。 2

4。 The Reasons of the Black Women’s Tragedy in The Bluest Eye 4

4。1 The racial discrimination in the White-dominant culture 4

4。2 The gender discrimination from the Black themselves 5

4。3 A deeply rooted African traditional culture 7

5。 Conclusion 9

Works Cited 10

1。 Introduction 论文网

As a black female writer in the 19th century, Toni Morrison made an indelible contribution to Afro-American culture。 In 1993, she became the winner of the Noble Prize for Literature。 In the aspects of the black women’s pain and struggle which caused by the White-dominate and male-dominate society, her maiden work The Bluest Eye had the really amazing effect on the whole society。 The main content of the novel was Pecola, an eleven-year-old girl who sustained her parents’ violence, classmates’ abuse and adults’ indifference, realized that just because of her ugly and black skin she had to experience all these terrible events。 Naturally, Pecola had a strong will to change herself so that she could be accepted by others。 So she began to pray to God to grant her a pair of blue eyes。 In her opinion, once she achieved the blue eyes, her parents would keep peace in front of her, the holder of the shop would treat her with passion, her teachers and classmates would give her praise。 Unfortunately, Pecola was raped by her father。 What’s worse, she was pregnant but got a premature birth finally。 Pecola became a psychotic because of the carelessness。 In addition, she believed that she had owned the most unrivaled and bluest eyes。 She even began whispering with the bluest eyes day to day。

The doomed destiny of black women was pictured by Morrison to show to her readers through Pecola and her mother, who represented the whole black women in the society。 There was no doubt that Morrison wrote a weepy and meaningful elegy。 Obviously, the three respects that the racial discrimination, the gender prejudice and the African traditional culture are the main causes of the black women’s tragedy。 Therefore, in my paper, I will analyze the black women’s tragedy from those three aspects。