• K SHAJEELA

Feminism is an ideology which seeks not only to understand the world but to change it to the advantage of women”. “The Bluest Eye” is a novel based on the lives of black women. Toni Morrison has described the world wide gender disparity by her characters like Pecola, Frieda, Pauline and the narrator Claudia who once mentions in the novel that three things have greatly affected Pecola’s life: being a child, being Black and being a girl. All the women characters are abused by both white women and men, as well as by Black men. The young Pecola’s innocent wish to have a pair of blue eyes is marked by her perception of a world where the cruelty and hardships she suffers are a result of her appearance as an ugly black girl with dark eyes. At home and all around her, Pecola is tortured by the cruelty and dirtiness she constantly witnesses; if she were blessed with the eyes, she would be able to see herself and her world in a new, beautiful way. In the course of a year, Pecola under goes a series of degradations, impregnated by her father and disintegrated into merciful madness, talking to herself imagining she’s at last transformed into one of the blue- eyed dolls. The fiction expresses the complex dynamics of experience through which individuals are formed, or deformed by the often conflicting values of their respective communities. The emotional realities of the characters are both as a response to and a reflection of the benign or destructive boundaries of community

Feminism, Ideology, The Bluest eye, Gender, Disparity, Torture Conflict, Community.

" FEMINISM IN TONI MORRISON’S “THE BLUEST EYE”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 12, page no.e271-e274, December-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412429.pdf

" FEMINISM 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.11, Issue 12, page no. ppe271-e274, December-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412429.pdf