the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛
bluest-eye-最蓝的眼睛-英语小论文
Eco-feminism Reflected in The Bluest Eye I. Brief introduction of the authorIn 1993，a black woman took off the crown of Nobel Prize for literature. She is Toni Morrison, who is the first black women writer in the history of America. Her works, most conce rned with black female’s life, spiritual world and destiny, root deeply in the reality of the black human beings searching for living space and self- identity under the pressure of the white human beings values. Morrison, therefore, gained high praise in the literature for her great literary and artistic talent and unique, deep description of American black females’ lives.Her first novel The Bluest Eye was published in 1970,which made her become famous .then she published six major novels—Sula (1973), Song of Solomon(1977), Tar Baby(1981), Beloved(1987),Jazz(1992) and Paradise(1998), Toni Morrison has placed black women’s existence, feelings, life and experience as her major theme. She fought for these human beings who are at the marginal status. Throughout her writing career, Morrison devoted all her creative contributions to the black.II. Brief introduction of the novelThe 1960s “Black is Beautiful” movement has a deep influence on The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison sets the story of The Bluest Eye at a time when black people are denied by powerful white society.In the novel , Morrison mold many characters of black women .The heroin is a little black girl called Pecola who needs blue eyes and believes white are beautiful, but the story is a nightmare for her asking for blue eyes and as a result, she is insane. Pecola has a wrong perception of herself longing for white beauty. She believes she is ugly. She believes if she had bluest eyes, she would be loved by her parents, her classmates and all the others. Finally, she begins to lose the black identity and owns the beautiful big blue eyes which only she can see. The narrator is another black girl called Claudia, who is completely different from Pecola and who searches for her own values. Eventually, on one hand, the braveblack women are the survivals; on the other hand, the pursuit of false self-identity ends as a tragedy.With the development of the literary criticism, the scholars study Morrison and her works mainly with the theory of the psychoanalytic, the postcolonial, the deconstruction, feminism and so on. What I will use is the eco-feminism, which connected tightly with the nature.III. My own insightPecola, was ruined, by whom? Those black boys? The white stars? Her father, Cholly? Actually it was because of the social system, the value system and the aesthetic standard with the social discrimination came into being in America. That’s the root of Pecola’s tragedy. In fact, black people have their own culture and values. If they can stick to and live with their own culture, the tragedy may be avoided. This innocent girl should have lived happily under the black people culture.There is another vital reason to cause the tragedy of her. It is that she is full of cowardice and doesn’t have a str ong faith. When she was conscious, she was torturous. She wants to be loved. Maybe somebody will say that the tragedy is because of her terrible family. But there are still some people treat her good and give her love such as Claudia, Frieda ,their mother and three cynical whores. But her weak heart can only see those bad things on her. So self-destroyed is also an important factor. What a satire, illusion becomes a person’s savior. On the contrary, Claudia chooses a different way. The doll which was given to Claudia as birthday present was a white girl, white skin and a pair of big blue eyes. She tears the doll and hates them. She never despised herself. So she is the real survivor.IV. Combined with eco-feminismEco-feminism is the social movement that regards the oppression of women and nature as interconnected. It is one of the few movements and analyses that actually connect two movements. More recently, ecofeminist theorists have extended their analyses to consider theinterconnections between sexism, the domination of nature (including animals), and also racism and social inequalities. Consequently it is now better understood as a movement working against the interconnected oppressions of gender, race, class and nature.Ecofeminists explore the intersectionality between sexism, the domination of nature, racism, speciesism, and other characteristics of social inequality.Morrison uses various views to tell the relations of human and nature, men and women, and complicated different racial cultures，so the ecofeminism will lead a better understanding of her work, the bluest eye. Now I will mainly talk about the relations of natural images and black female.1.Four seasonsAs for harmony between man and nature, Morrison chooses a very representativeness image that is the changeable season. Morrison connects this kind of change with the sufferings of the black girl, thereby, sets off the contradictions, conflicts and misfortune that black women has suffered under the white culture. The author Use the four seasons as the mainly natural image, is on the purpose to tell that black women ‘s tragic fate is just like the cycle of the seasons ,inevitable and independent of man's will .,at the same time it deeply reveal the source of the social culture that brings the pains to the black women. What should we pay more attention, also is most different from others, is that Morrion changes the order of the seasons as autumn, winter, spring and summer .this reverse trick not only implies the white press their values and standard of beauty on the blavk , but also symbolize the reverse of the truth and disorder of the women’s fate. What’s more, it reve als that if the black accept the extremist ideas and life style of the white, they would lose themselves and get the mental distortion.Autumn should be a harvest time. Pecola gets ministration and turn to be mature and want to be loved. But what she gets? Her family is totally mass, parents quarrel and fight every day and nobody payattention to her. She also becomes the laughing stock of others around her. People think she is too ugly because of the deep dark color. And her own kinds also curse and mock her. This merciless world has hurt the girl deeply. unkind winter is coming, the pains are going on, the boys mock her with “black e mo black e mo, your daddy sleeps nicked”, and the new girl in school named Maureen peal who is loved by all others also strike her heart with full malice. To make things worse, the spring is coming.springshould be a lively season with hope, but totally different, her mother completely ignores her and do best to the white girl. Her biological father, rapes her, which destroys her to the full. When the lovely summer is coming, she gives a dead baby. Just like the society refuse this innocent life. Four seasons won’t stop here. It will circle again and again, pains will Increase endless.2.MarigoldsMarigolds, is the symbol of hope and life. Claudia and Frieda seed the marigolds but “there were no marigolds. That it was because Pecola was having her father’s baby that the marigolds didn’t grow.” “It never occurred to either of us that the earth itself might have been unyielding.” Mari golds are tied up with the women’s destiny. They are beautiful .the nature and women both have the ability to give birth but they are oppressed. Marigolds didn’t grow, not the only ones did not sprout, and nobody’s did. We can see the whole land of the bla ck are sacrifice of the violence and oppression of white racial and culture. Pecola is just a representive; the dead baby is the death of hope.3.DandelionsDandelions, at first pecola thinks they are beautiful and love them, but people treat it as weeds and think it is ugly. Her heart melted with pity of them. She shows her love for nature. As for the black women they are also beautiful and are a part of nature. She doesn’t know why she is ugly. She has the sense of herself. But others think she is ugly .after the cold eyes of the host of grocery store, she think dandelions are most ugly weeds. She also lost herself. Her view has transferred gradually . She feelsashamed for herself. It equals that she give up the nature and also herself. We can see how harmful the injustice society, just like poison corrupt the innocent heart of the black.4.CatAnimals are also parts of the nature. In the story, there is a innocent cat which is also has a tragedy ending just like pecola .Cats and women, are all disadvantaged groups and have the familiar fate..it was a cat of Geraldine .But her son Junior hates it very much and bully Pecola with the cat. Both of the cat and Pecola was the weaker that are teased and persecuted by the boy. Finally the cat died. The innocent life is dead.References:［1］梁志健．自然意象在《最蓝的眼睛》中的象征意义［J］．湖北教育学院学报，2007，［2］王晓春．《最蓝的眼睛》———精神生态困境下的悲剧与解救［J］．文学教育，2008，( 11) ．［3］Eco-feminism 维基百科。
the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛演示课件
• The cyclical nature of racism
• Whiteness is the standard of beauty
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• Dirtiness and Cleanliness • Whiteness and Coloredness • Ugliness and Beauty • ……
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• Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison does not identify her works as feminist.
• She has stated that she thinks “it‘s off-putting(令人不快) to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things.
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
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Background
詹宁
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Toni Morrison
• Born :February 18, 1931 (1931-02-18) • Lorain, Ohio, United States • Occupation :Novelist, Writer • Genres: African American literature • Notable work(s) :Beloved, Song of Solomon • Notable award(s) : • Nobel Prize in Literature • 1993 • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • 1988
《最蓝的眼睛》情节导读
Pecola moves back in with her family,andher life is difficult. Her father drinks, hermother is distant, and the two of them oftenbeat one another. Her brother, Sammy,frequently runs away. Pecola believes that ifshe had blue eyes, she would be loved andher life would be transformed. Meanwhile,she continually receives confirmation of herown senseof ugliness—the grocer looks rightthrough her when she buys candy, boys make fun of her, and a light-skinned girl, Maureen, who temporarily befriends her makes fun ofher too. She is wrongly blamed for killing a boy'scat and is called a "nasty little blackbitch" by his mother.
TheBluestEye教案
The Bluest Eye 教案第一章：简介与背景1.1 课程目标：了解并欣赏Toni Morrison的作品《最蓝的眼睛》分析作品的背景和文化意义培养对多元文化的理解和尊重1.2 教学内容：介绍Toni Morrison及其作品《最蓝的眼睛》探讨小说的主题和背景分析小说的结构和风格1.3 教学方法：讲座和讨论相结合的方式，引导学生了解作品的背景和文化意义分析小说的结构和风格，引导学生深入理解作品第二章：人物与情节2.1 课程目标：分析小说中的主要人物和他们的关系理解情节的发展和转折点培养对人物内心世界的理解和同情心2.2 教学内容：分析小说中的主要人物，包括Pecola、Mary Agnes和Chloe等探讨人物之间的关系和发展理解情节的转折点和主题的呈现2.3 教学方法：小组讨论和角色扮演，引导学生深入理解人物的性格和动机分析情节的发展和转折点，引导学生理解主题的呈现第三章：主题与象征3.1 课程目标：分析小说的主题和象征意义理解作品对社会现实的批判和反思培养对自我认同和自尊的思考和探讨3.2 教学内容：分析小说的主题，包括对美的追求、种族歧视和贫困等探讨作品中的象征意义，如最蓝的眼睛的象征意义引导学生思考作品对社会现实的批判和反思3.3 教学方法：小组讨论和写作练习，引导学生深入理解主题和象征意义分析作品对社会现实的批判和反思，引导学生思考自我认同和自尊的重要性第四章：文学手法与风格4.1 课程目标：分析小说的文学手法和风格理解作者的叙事技巧和语言特色培养对文学作品的欣赏和评价能力4.2 教学内容：分析小说的叙事技巧，如视角的转换和时间的跳跃等探讨小说的语言特色，如描述、对话和内心独白等引导学生欣赏和评价作者的文学手法和风格4.3 教学方法：小组讨论和写作练习，引导学生深入理解文学手法和风格分析作者的叙事技巧和语言特色，引导学生欣赏和评价作品第五章：批判性思维与讨论5.1 课程目标：培养学生的批判性思维能力引导学生对小说中的主题和情节进行深入讨论培养学生的综合分析和批判能力5.2 教学内容：引导学生对小说中的主题和情节进行深入讨论分析小说中的社会问题和文化冲突引导学生思考作品对现实社会的启示和影响5.3 教学方法：小组讨论和口头报告，引导学生深入理解和批判作品分析社会问题和文化冲突，引导学生思考作品对现实社会的启示和影响第六章：性别与身份6.1 课程目标：分析小说中性别角色和身份认同的主题探讨小说中女性角色的自主性和束缚培养学生对性别平等和多元身份的认识6.2 教学内容：分析小说中女性角色的形象和塑造探讨性别角色对人物命运的影响引导学生思考身份认同与个人成长的关系6.3 教学方法：小组讨论和角色扮演，引导学生深入理解女性角色的自主性和束缚分析性别角色和身份认同的主题，引导学生思考现实生活中的性别平等和多元身份认同问题第七章：家庭与社区7.1 课程目标：分析小说中家庭和社区的关系和影响探讨家庭结构对人物成长的影响培养学生对家庭和社区支持的重视7.2 教学内容：分析小说中家庭关系和社区环境的描绘探讨家庭破裂和社区压迫对人物命运的影响引导学生思考家庭和社区对个人成长的支持和影响7.3 教学方法：小组讨论和案例分析，引导学生深入理解家庭和社区的关系和影响分析家庭结构和支持系统对人物成长的影响，引导学生思考现实生活中的家庭和社区支持的重要性第八章：艺术与美的追求8.1 课程目标：分析小说中艺术和美的追求的主题探讨小说中对美的标准和价值观的批判培养学生对艺术和美的理解和欣赏能力8.2 教学内容：分析小说中艺术创作和美的追求的描写探讨美的标准和价值观的批判和反思引导学生思考个人对艺术和美的追求的意义和价值8.3 教学方法：小组讨论和创作练习，引导学生深入理解艺术和美的追求的主题分析美的标准和价值观的批判，引导学生思考个人对艺术和美的追求的意义和价值第九章：心理与社会的影响9.1 课程目标：分析小说中人物心理和社会环境的相互影响探讨小说中人物的心理变化和社会压力的关系培养学生对心理健康和社会适应的认识和关注9.2 教学内容：分析小说中人物心理的描写和社会环境的背景探讨人物的心理变化和社会压力的相互作用引导学生思考心理健康和社会适应的重要性9.3 教学方法：小组讨论和心理测试，引导学生深入理解人物心理和社会环境的相互影响分析人物的心理变化和社会压力的关系，引导学生关注心理健康和社会适应的重要性第十章：综合讨论与反思10.1 课程目标：培养学生对小说整体理解和批判性思维能力引导学生对小说中的主题和情节进行综合讨论和反思培养学生对文学作品的社会意义和现实影响的思考10.2 教学内容：引导学生对小说中的主题和情节进行综合讨论和反思分析小说中的社会问题和文化冲突的解决方案引导学生思考文学作品对社会现实的影响和启示10.3 教学方法：小组讨论和口头报告，引导学生深入理解和反思作品分析社会问题和文化冲突的解决方案，引导学生思考作品对社会现实的影响和启示重点解析理解Toni Morrison及其作品《最蓝的眼睛》的背景和文化意义分析小说中的主要人物、情节、主题和象征意义探讨小说中的性别角色、家庭和社区关系、艺术和美的追求、心理与社会的影响等议题培养学生对文学作品的理解、欣赏和批判性思维能力引导学生思考文学作品对社会现实的影响和启示引导学生关注家庭支持、心理健康、身份认同、性别平等和多元文化等重要议题。
the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛
Themes
• The importance of family and community • The innocence of children • Seeing versus Being seen • Sexual Initiation and abuse • Powerlessness of Women and children and child
• She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. The story later evolved into her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970).
the Bluest Eye
• Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives.
每次责骂对这个男孩似乎都不起作用一点也没有改变他的品行
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Background
詹宁பைடு நூலகம்
Toni Morrison
• Born :February 18, 1931 (1931-02-18) • Lorain, Ohio, United States • Occupation :Novelist, Writer • Genres: African American literature • Notable work(s) :Beloved, Song of Solomon • Notable award(s) : • Nobel Prize in Literature • 1993 • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • 1988
the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛课件
• In 2010,France's culture minister has inducted Nobel Prizewinning novelist Toni Morrison into the Legion of Honor.
A brief introduction of the author of THE BLUEST EYE
Toni Morrison
the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛
Outline
Part 1 Biography Part 2 Major works
and Awards Part 3 Writing Features
the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛
Part 2 Major Works and Awards
the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛
Novels
The Bluest Eye (1970) Sula (1974) Song of Solomon (1977) Tar Baby (1981) Beloved (1987) Jazz (1992) Paradise (1999) Love (2003) A Mercy (2008)
• began her writing career.
the bluest eye 最蓝的眼睛
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In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
——“Toni Morrison, who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic inport, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.”
_最蓝的眼睛_托尼_莫里森与生态女性主义的共鸣_曹小菁
《最蓝的眼睛》———托尼·莫里森与生态女性主义的共鸣曹小菁内容提要：论文旨在揭示《最蓝的眼睛》与生态女性主义的共鸣。
首先简介了作者、小说、生态女性主义、对莫里森的生态女性主义研究。
《最蓝的眼睛》与生态女性主义都根源于生产力的工业化要求；在思想内涵上将自然与女性联系，反对二元式思维，提倡平等；都有颠覆与创新之处，小说的悲惨、女童的疯癫，达成文学史上的新高。
《最蓝的眼睛》就是莫里森的一曲生态女性主义高歌，而生态女性主义正是莫里森《最蓝的眼睛》的深刻思想主张。
关键词：《最蓝的眼睛》生态女性主义莫里森作者简介：曹小菁，西安外国语大学讲师，主要研究方向为英美文学。
此文系以下课题的研究成果：2009年衡阳市社科联“人与自然的异化及文学中的生态马克思主义思想———兼论衡阳生态文明建设之思考”【项目编号：2009D10】；2010年南华大学“生态女性主义穿越时空———由莎剧至20世纪英美经典小说”【项目编号：B3004】；2011年湖南省高校科研项目【项目编号：青年项目】“资本主义现代性下的非理性体验—战后二十年美国小说中的疯癫研究”【项目编号：11B109】。
Title：The Bluest Eye—A Coincidence between Toni Morrison and EcofeminismAbstract：This thesis aims to reveal the relationship between The Bluest Eye and eco-feminism．The thesis in-troducing Toni Morrison，the novel itself，eco－feminism，and the eco-feminist studies of Morrison．The thesis goes on to explore the relationship between The Bluest Eye and eco-feminism through such aspects as social background，ideological content，and subversiveness or originality．Eco-feminism is the ideology of The Bluest Eye，an eco-feminist song sung by Morrison．Key words：The Bluest Eye eco-feminism MorrisonAuthor：Cao Xiaojing is a lecturer at the higher vocational college inxi’an International Studies University （Xi’an710128，China）．Her research interest is English and America Literature．Email：Laurel430@126．com托尼·莫里森（又译托妮·莫瑞森）（1931－），原名克娄·安东妮·沃福德，继美国女作家赛珍珠之后于1993年荣膺诺贝尔文学奖，是迄今唯一获此殊荣的美国黑人女作家，第三次黑色浪潮的璀璨新星。
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课程大纲
第四章：语言和文学手法分析
分析小说的语言特色和文学手 法，如象征、隐喻等。
探讨作者如何通过语言和文学 手法来表达主题和塑造人物形 象。
课程大纲
第五章：总结和思考 对小说的主题、人物和文学手法进行总结。
引发学生对小说主题的思考和讨论。
学习方法
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语法解析
• The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison, published in 1970. It is about a young black girl who longs to have blue eyes like the white girls she sees around her. The novel explores themes of beauty, race, and female sexuality.
写作练习
读后感写作
仿写练习
要求学生写一篇读后感，表达自己对 课文的理解和感悟。
选取课文中的经典段落或句子，要求 学生进行仿写练习，提高学生的语言 主题，自选角度， 写一篇不少于800字的文章，锻炼学 生的写作能力。
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对比手法
作者运用对比手法，突出了不 同人物的性格特点和命运差异 ，增强了作品的感染力。
象征手法
通过“最蓝的眼睛”这一象征 ，作者表达了对美的追求和对 种族歧视的批判，使主题更加 鲜明。
语言运用
作者运用生动、形象的语言， 描绘了人物形象和场景，使作
品更具文学魅力。
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Toni Morrison
• Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters.
• Morrison began writing fiction as part of an informal group of poets and writers at Howard University who met to discuss their work. • She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. The story later evolved into her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970).
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Background
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Born :February 18, 1931 (1931-02-18) Lorain, Ohio, United States Occupation :Novelist, Writer Genres: African American literature Notable work(s) :Beloved, Song of Solomon Notable award(s) : Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988
• Aiken is a city in and the county seat of Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. With Augusta, Georgia, it is one of the two largest cities of the Central Savannah River Area. It is part of the Augusta-Richmond County Metropolitan Statistical Area. Aiken is home to the University of South Carolina at Aiken. The population was 25,337 at the 2000 census. Aiken was recognized with the All-America City Award in 1997 by the National Civic League
• Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives. • Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.
• Although her novels typically concentrate on black women, Morrison does not identify her works as feminist. • She has stated that she thinks ―it‗s off-putting(令人不快) to some readers, who may feel that I'm involved in writing some kind of feminist tract. I don't subscribe to patriarchy, and I don't think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it's a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things.
Mobile
• From top: Pincus Building, Old City Hall and Southern Market, Fort Condé, Barton Academy, Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, and the skyline of downtown Mobile from the Mobile River.
motifs
• • • • Dirtiness and Cleanliness Whiteness and Coloredness Ugliness and Beauty ……
Pattern
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Structure
• Paragraph 1-9 – the debut and description of ―the brown girls‖.
• Paragraph 10-53 – a small incident between the heroine Pecola Breedlove- a black girl and a boy and his brown mother.
Mobile
• Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States.
Cobb County courthouse in Marietta
Meridian
• Meridian is the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It is the sixth largest city in the state and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan. Statistical Area. Along major highways, the city is 93 mi (150 km) east of Jackson, MS; 154 mi (248 km) west of Birmingham, AL; 202 mi (325 km) northeast of New Orleans, LA; and 231 mi (372 km) southeast of Memphis, TN.