Racial and Sexual Intolerance in The Bluest Eye

Abstract

The paper tries to focus in a system where chauvinism, malevolent and sexism exists there a young black girl’s endeavour to achieve beauty, a means for happiness and survival. The novel portrays the effect of discrimination on a budding teenager’s sexual being that put her in a gloomy and scary atmosphere from where the character was unable to leap out. Race and sex issues are at the heart of this enduring novel where white racism and black sexism affected the little innocent girl. The novel is Toni Morrison’s incredible string of sensitive, imaginative and exploratory contemporary fiction, positioned after the Great Depression era in 1941 Lorain, Ohio. The novel shows the prejudices that created a crater in the black man’s psyche and his unexposed aggression on the white world led to his psychological repression which he reveal on the associate female members.