Racial and Cultural Conflict in Morrison'sThe Bluest Eye

Abstract

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a novel about racial and cultural conflict when black people come into contact with the whites. Racism is the mistreatment of a group of people on the basis of race, colour, and religion; a blind and pointless harted, envy, or prejudice obviously expressed in the form of graffiti; intimidation or abuse, discrimination on offering jobs. Racial discrimination is often based on the discrimination where the word 'discrimination' denotes the denial of equality based on personal characteristics such as race and colour.

The Bluest Eye bring the intra-racial conflict into foreground that is taking on different forms at different levels of the relationship between the light-skinned blacks and the dark skinned blacks. The novel focuses on the poignantly tragic story of a girlPecola who is subjected to an eternal tragic longing for blue eyes, which results in her insanity. In this novel, there is a character named Pecola, who comes from the low dark skinned blacks scornfully called niggers. She is inferiorized. Her parents are swamped in the mire of terrible conflict and violent misunderstanding. Both of Pecola's parents are entirely ignorant,illiterate and querulously hostile. There is a terribly vacuous space in between her father and mother. She is brought on in such a sort of family that infested with confusion, degeneration indignity and violent terror and animosity. She grows aware of the intra-racial touch that is cancerously mushrooming in her own family. Her fluctuation in her life is due to the racial and cultural conflict inside and outside her family.