Abstract
This paper is to further study Toni Morrison’s work the Bluest Eye. The black mothers are oppressed by both racial and sexual discriminations which result in the loss of female personality and motherhood awareness. They are indifferent about their own personality and lose the greatest motherhood; therefore they cannot control their destiny and can do nothing to their children’s fate which contribute to their children’s tragedy. But in fact, the black mothers are the carriers of the black culture, they should have protected their children from being hurt by racial and sexual discriminations and guide them to challenge against discriminations.
Keywords Female Personality Motherhood Awareness Tragedy
本文对托尼•莫里森的著作《最蓝的眼睛》进行了深入探讨。黑人母亲受到种族歧视与性别歧视的双重压迫，这种压迫导致她们女性人格和母性缺失,她们对内自身的人格漠不关心，又丧失掉最伟大的母性，正因此她们无法掌握自己的命运，英语论文，对子女的命运也无能无力并造成他们的悲剧。但事实上，黑人母亲是黑人文化的传承者，英语论文题目，她们应当保护自己的子女在种族与性别歧视下免受伤害，并引导他们向歧视发出挑战。
关键词 女性人格 母性 悲剧
Toni Morrison is the first black woman writer who is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, depicts African-American women’s life under the powerful dominance and persuasive influence of the white culture and ideology. Tony Morrison’s works deeply concern American black women’s life experience which reflects their explorations of their existence value and identity in the white-dominated society. Toni Morrison’s novels revealed distorted relations of blacks’ family.Among those relations,the most distinguishing relation is the one between mothers and their daughters.She depicted the black women’s female personality and motherhood awareness as a sort of complicated beings influenced by strong physiological, psychological, race, patriarchal system and cultural factors. Meanwhile, the female personality and motherhood she described are self-contradictory. On the one hand, they are dreadful and destructive. To protect their children, they could even choose to hurt or kill them by themselves. On the other hand，they are warm and strong. Deep in their heart, they wish to give their children better life and would have sacrificed themselves. This kind of female personality and motherhood are contradictory, but these black mothers still deserve our sympathy. They do not have independent personality and economic status. Being persecuted, they are numb in personality. |
