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.

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

Contents

Abstract

摘要

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