The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Analyzed Through the Lens of a Cultural Materialism
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Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye follows a young black woman as she grapples with the conflicting pressures of the black beauty ideal and the reality of violence in the black community. Morrison shows that even the most well-intentioned people may damage one another in the story when they are bound by poverty and social disgrace. Morrison argues that people's desire to use violence is a misperception. According to them, negative expressions of love lead to distortion, which in turn causes agony.
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