Violence of Colour and Capitalism in ‘The Bluest Eye

Abstract

The present analyses compare and contrast the bitter gender violence of colour and capitalism in Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’. For the black people in the American society, by and large, there emerged three types of violence. At the first level was the violence based on financial status resulting in the exercising of power and influence over the blacks by the whites. The second was the violence based on race and ethnicity as the blacks were brutally tortured and exploited by the whites. The third was the violence based on gender i.e. the violence between the black men and women. Like the first two, the third type of violence also pitiable for the black woman who experiences pain, isolation and exploitation by her own son, husband or father. These three type of violence clubbed together make the life of a black woman miserable. Pecola suffers not only because she is poor and black but also because she is a girl. By analyzing the general and particular violence in ‘The Bluest Eye’, the conclusion aim is to establish the man- woman domestic violence is not based on gender only but on capitalism and colour also.