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Article: Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye.' (Toni Morrison)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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In addition to the popular myths that she uses in The Bluest Eye to criticize society--the Dick and Jane Story and Pauline Breedlove's Dreamland Theatre--Toni Morrison also incorporates characters, incidents, and themes that recall classical myth. In her article, "Lady Sings the Blues," Madonne M. Miner has explained how Pecola's rape by her father recalls Philomela's by Tereus and Persephone's by Pluto (176). Pecola's story--her tragic failure to find her truth, to find her happiness in knowing who she is and her worth to herself and others--recalls also the tragedy of Oedipus the King. In The Bluest Eye, however, the myth appears in a peculiar and distorted fashion. ...
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Article: The Bluest Eye
The Village Voice;
November 15, 2006 ;
445 words
...The Bluest Eye The Duke on 42nd Street ... comedy, Toni Morrison gives Pecola (Alana Arenas), the heroine of her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye, the surname Breedlove ... humor, only painful irony. Pecola knows no love from her sexually ...
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