• Dr. A. HEMALATHA

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison introduces Lorain, Ohio's black community. The admiration of white beauty requirements prevails over their initial black values among most community members. Morrison also demonstrates the contrast between the white beauty criteria obsessed individuals and the kids who do their utmost to withstand these requirements and retain their black values. The research work of the study compares these two character groups. There is, on the one side, a group represented by Pecola and Pauline Breedlove, defeated by the belief that whiteness is beauty. The white view affects their life and they see themselves through highly critical white eyes despite being black and think that being black is hideous. Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, on the other side, are not yielding to the omnipresent white impact and the mainstream culture has a distinct impact on their thinking than on the Breedloves. Claudia and Frieda MacTeer can't help contradicting the white perfect of excellence that is propagandized around them all over the place. Both of these organizations recognize that white people are distinct. While the Breedloves can just observe their grotesqueness, their divergence is realized by the MacTeer sisters, but they do not find themselves hideous in comparison with white people.

Refusal of Blackness in the background of Double-Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

"Refusal of Blackness in the background of Double-Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.926-929, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907274.pdf

"Refusal of Blackness in the background of Double-Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp926-929, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907274.pdf