The purpose of this thesis is to examine how white-dominated values are internalized and overcome in Toni Morrison's The bluest Eye. First of all, this thesis studies what white-dominant values are: white body, white middle class' life, and black infe...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how white-dominated values are internalized and overcome in Toni Morrison's The bluest Eye. First of all, this thesis studies what white-dominant values are: white body, white middle class' life, and black inferiority formed by racial prejudices. Black characters who don't have self-identity blindly accept white-centered value. And to escape from their unfortunate reality, black characters including Pecola, Pauline, Geraldine, Cholly, and black community internalize the dominant white-centered values generating self-destruction, living their fake life, class consciousness in black community, and violation.
This thesis also studies to find how to overcome black characters' internalization of whiteness by examining Claudia and other black people: Mrs. Macteer, Aunt Jimmy, Blue, and three prostitutes. In contrast with Pecola, Geraline, Pauline, Geraldine, Cholly, and black community, they look at reality objectively, have blacks' identity, and accept blacks' agony as a part of their life by remembering blacks' tradition and culture.