Abstract Toni Morrison, a great black female writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her virginal work The Bluest Eye has exquisitely and authentically depicted the life condition of black people in the early 1940s with a focus on the real record of the white-dominant society’s destructive impacts on the African American’s culture and especially on the black females’ recognition about their racial identities through a story about a black girl’s yearning for a pair of blue eyes35400
The thesis starts from the description of Pecola and her mother, Mrs. Breedlove’s wretched life experiences. Then the thesis penetrates into the American society in the early 20th century so that the cause of the black women’ tragedy can be analyzed and the root of it can be found. It can be dissected that the root is the severe erosion of the black culture by the invasion of the dominant white culture and the unconscious internalization of racism by black people themselves. At the same time, a chapter is devoted to the discussion about the narrator Claudia to enrich the analysis and comparison of black female characters in the novel.
Key Words: tragedy the black female blue eyes root
摘要托妮•莫里森是一位伟大的黑人女性作者，她于1993年荣获诺贝尔文学奖的桂冠。她的处女作《最蓝的眼睛》真实地再现了上个世纪40年代早期黑人的生活境况。莫里森将小说重点放在真实记录白人主宰的社会对于黑人文化的毁灭性影响上，并通过一位黑人女孩渴望拥有一双蓝色眼睛的故事凸显了白人主流社会对黑人女性对种族身份的认识的消极影响。
本文将走入女主人公佩科拉和她的母亲布里德洛夫太太的悲惨一生，并以此为出发点，洞悉二十世纪早期的美国社会，探讨造成以她们为代表的黑人女性的悲剧的原因，并剖析其根源。其根源即白人文化对黑人文化的侵蚀以及黑人自身种族主义的内化。同时，本文还对小说叙述者克劳迪娅进行了相关探讨，丰富了关于黑人女性的分析与比较。
毕业论文关键词：悲剧 黑人女性 蓝眼睛 根源
Contents
Abstract i
摘要 ii
Contents .iii
Introduction １
Chapter One The Tragedy of Pecola ５
1.1 Pecola’s tragic life ５
1.2 Causes of Pecola’s tragedy ６
Chapter Two The Tragedy of Mrs. Breedlove ９
2.1 Mrs. Breedlove’s tragic life ９
2.2 Causes of Mrs. Breedlove’s tragedy １０
Chapter Three The Rebellion of Claudia MacTeer １４
3.1 A comparison between Pecola and Claudia MacTeer １４
3.2 Pecola’s influence on Claudia １５
Conclusion １７
Works cited １９
Tragedy and Rebellion: On the Black Females in The Bluest Eye
Introduction
Toni Morrison is of great importance in the history of American literature. She is not only a novelist, but also an editor and professor. She was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 1993, she was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature and thus became the first black female writer to win the great honor. Toni Morrison has published 7 novels, a play, a musical, and a collection of critical essays. She is famous for her novels which include epic themes, quite detailed characters and vivid dialogues. Her devoted readers spread all over the world regardless of the age, sex, or color. As an active member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Morrison has always tried to call on the African-American writers to publish their works. 《最蓝的眼睛》黑人女性的悲剧:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_33488.html