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This contribution investigates and lays bare the ideological workings of racialized beauty myth as presented in Toni MorrisonвЂ™s The Bluest Eye by bringing together feminist theory and postcolonial theory of race. Through this technique, Morrison successfully explores the theme of discrimination, creating a masterpiece considered a leading exponent of вЂњBlack LiteratureвЂќ.

In the course of this analysis, I conclude that symbolism is used to challenge the beauty ideals present of that time that managed to isolate a race, qualifying them as undesirable individuals. This affects vulnerable characters like Pecola to believe they must possess said traits to earn societyвЂ™s respect. I will analyse PecolaвЂ™s search to possess clear blue eyes to show how society managed to place in high regards white traits, excluding the representation of other races. I will also be focusing on MorrisonвЂ™s main symbol which is included in her novelвЂ™s title, The bluest eye. This will also be studied through PecolaвЂ™s love for yellow dandelions, indicating her idolization for white blonde girls, portraying how symbolically blind she is by the external standards of beauty.

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I also analysed the use of marigolds unable to bloom, to show the suppression of a particular sector of society considered to be inferior, due to their skin colour which contradicts the already established beauty image of whiteness and purity. This is portrayed by symbols like the Shirley Temple doll or cup, given to one of the characters, showing the invasion of mass media in social perceptions of beauty. In considering вЂњAutumn and WinterвЂќ I investigate the colour white by evaluating its effect in showing purity and an established beauty ideal. To determine how Morrison uses colour symbolism effectively, I analyse the colours associated with seasons. There is a strong appearance of the colours orange, yellow, white and blue throughout the work that have symbolic connotations and effects which portrays an image of beauty. I set out to explore colour symbolism in Toni MorrisonвЂ™s 1970 novel The bluest eye. In fact, they are interested and entwined.

Portraying places with an intimacy that elevates subjectivity over fact, her settings are never indifferent or separate from the lives that they contain. In this essay, I will explore how Morrison represents landscapes as places of intimacy in The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Paradise, uplifting the interior experiences of black women through narration in order to render place and community as subjective rather than objective. Where other writers use setting as a physical backdrop, a stage, I argue that Morrison builds place with intimacy, paying attention to its corners and folds, giving it not only a name but a persona. In this way, using the вЂmagicalвЂ™ to conjure up something more real and whole than fact, Morrison similarly transforms the settings of her novels into something fuller than an address, writing the emotional truth of a place onto its physical landscape. In Beloved, while we are aware of the facts of SetheвЂ™s escape, we are asked to instead pay attention to SetheвЂ™s subjective memory of it, her private familiarity with pain, her intimacy with AmyвЂ™s вЂњbreath like burning woodвЂќ. Perched on the distinction between fact and truth, her work relies on truth to recover a subjectivity that is often cut away from fact.

Toni MorrisonвЂ™s novels are deeply rooted in and committed to place.