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Psychoanalysis of Characters in “The Bluest Eye”

Psychoanalysis is considered as being a mental methodology that is used in identifying

the most hidden functionalities of the brain and thus healing of the psychological diseases.

Anyone that gets involved with the activity of collecting all the information that relates to a

patient’s medical record with an aim of studying could be referred to as the psychoanalyst. This

can be taken to be an organization that then can also employ other techniques of the literature

while blending varied hypothesis to bring up conclusions with respect to the writer of the

materials, the consumer or the reader or similarly the cast or the characters involved in the

writings. This essay purposes to use the same methodology to study and analyze the characters of

“the bluest eye” to be specific the lead cast of the book; “Pecola Breedlove”. This novel

specifically does portray a horrifying sufferings that the black Americans had to go through

especially in the period of post slavery. The author does try to paint the clear picture of the

effects and losses caused by the race discrimination together with the segregation effects

“Cholly Breedlove”

The book is majorly paced around the minors who are then also surrounded by the

grown-ups that are momentarily caught neglecting the kids. “Cholly Breedlove” happens to be

one of the characters of the book and through the psychoanalysis we can able to

comprehensively study the behaviors of this character and the establish the relationship it has to

his past and the manner in which he was brought up. The book does provides a tale of the life of
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“Cholly “as well as the alcoholic nature of him in-addition to the psychogical issues that drove

him to sexually abusing his daughter. He was abandoned by h mother then the late aunty took

him but after dying he was left alone ad in much need. “Cholly” was at some point got by the

whites as he was engaging in sexual activities, they did force him to continue while they

remained there to watch him. We are also told that his father did not want to be associated with

him at any cost. These consistent history and acts of being turned down together with being left

by those people that were very close, result in so much depression which then culminated into

uncontrolled se of alcohol as well as other substance abuse.one would for sue look own or in the

same case despise the character “Cholly” but the picture of suffering and the pain that the author

has created will for sure call for a given amount of pity for him. In the whole narration, “Cholly”

lives in unpleasant state of affairs filled with depression and suffering, he even sets his own

house on fire. The character brings out a feeling of loneliness and rejection leave alone even his

own. We can deduce that his behavior of not providing the needed parenting to his own children

could be as a result of his childhood abandonment.

There is a clear elaboration on how much “Pecola” incarnated the white people’s kind of

attractiveness to such a great level that she did wish or herself to possess one of those blue eyes.

Dating to the current times many people still have that perception the white people’s

attractiveness makes the making scheme for the beauty and thus countless want to be associated

with it. The book tries paint the picture of the racism effects in the U.S as well as the struggles of

the female through racism and the sexism. The female gender is much connected with the

sexism, the acts of racial discrimination as well as the grouping oppressions. The author does not
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only just concentrate of elaborating on the issues of racial discrimination, grouping and gender,

but also dos express the opinion in the collective community of the US. “Pecola” puts pressure

on herself with regards to the dominant community of the whites, where she is amazed by the

blue eyes that are viewed as a major sign of attractiveness. She never owned up the duties of

being a mother or even a married woman. She had her dreams for the future and she never did

bother herself with happenings in the present times. The author through “Pecola “brings the

blame to the entire society of the Americans, she is powerless, and thus did not agree to the

values that she had been give this drove her into state of madness.

The mentality of white beauty that the three ladies “Pecola”, “Claudia” and he “Frieda”

have developed with. There is a perspective of thinking that makes dominance of the white very

much hard to locate any form of attractiveness in the black.in this book the characters develops

hat urge to possess the look of the oppressor in the state. The author tends to send a message of

warning to the specifically females of the ambiguity together with insanity that is likely to befall

the if they continue adoring the kind of racial discrimination which affects their environments. in

the character of Claudia who show some lot of concern for “Pecola” when she runs mad, all

those take on actions that black ladies ought to get involved in so as to develop a positive

surroundings that can help them grow or express themselves. Also, the society is being blamed

for allowing “Pecola” to get insane.

In conclusion, the psychoanalysis and the feminist study of the “the Bluest eye” does try

to elaborate on the character and the wings on the ethnic as well as beliefs reaction towards the

racial discrimination, sexual harassments as well as suffering of the blacks.

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