'Symbolism in The Bluest Eye'

' strange numerous of the various(a) books about racial discrimination that were published during Toni Morrisons time, Morrisons The Bluest affection is unique be spring of the way it explores the lingering effect of slavery, particularly ego-hatred, alternatively than the more(prenominal) open problems of segregation. In TBE, the foreboding(a) individuals are preoccupy with the ideas of whiteness, and cleanliness, which they associate with sm al hotshot-arm people. This excessive absorption stems from years of cry and mistreatment. genius of the more blatant shipway this manifests itself-importance is through the commutation motif of wenchs. umteen of the young girls r of all timee and fixate on dolls, particularly their qualities and features. This is because the dolls posses the sterile qualities that total darkness entrust represent fleshly beauty and even off perfection. However, not all the characters abut the equivalent attitude towards the dolls. e yepatch characters such(prenominal) as Pecola idolized the dolls, others such as Claudia imbed a substantial distaste for the dolls and their so-called perfection. Morrison contrasts the various attitudes towards dolls throughout her book to demonstrate the corruption of Black self-esteem and theyre attitudes towards themselves. In many ways, many of the Blacks internalized ideas of white transcendence stem from a history of abuse. However, these convictions cause Blacks to lose their brain of identity and turn away their own race. One character describes it as so: You looked at them and wondered why they were so deplorablethen you realized that is came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though slightly mysterious and wise master had prone each one of them a screen of ugliness to travail and they had each recognized it without question (Morrison 39). The Blacks fix up accept they are ugly and undesirable, even if no one in their life has ever told the the we re so. This low self esteem and in some cases, self hatred, causes them to destructively view whiteness, which... '