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Pecola is a character induced by the society to identify with and pursue unattainable white beauty in course of her pursuit, she naturally develops an ego that submits to those who despise and oppress her.
In this essay, I will analyze how two characters Pecola and Claudia are molded by the society to become docile subordinates and have their egos disfigured by it as they are forced to identify themselves with socially constructed reverence of whiteness. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a collage of individuals’ response to a society that oppresses and degrades the black people. Therefore, reading a fiction is in a way assessing the society within it by observing and synthesizing how characters react to its influence. This notion suggests the function characters provide in a fiction different characters react differently to identical social conditions, which enables the readers to contemplate on how a society influences individuals respectively. Sara Ahmed quotes Michael FitzGerald in “Willful Parts: Problem Characters or the Problem of Character”: “he original sense of charassein is ‘to inscribe or imprint,’ to produce something identifiable by marking an otherwise undifferentiated surface (…) ‘characteristic’ comes to encompass any distinguishing marks of feature by which something is known as what it is and set apart from others” (Ahmed “Problem of Character” 232). Obedient Subordinates and Their Mutilated Egos in The Bluest Eye