Abstract

As the first African American female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most prominent black writers in American literature. The bluest eye is Toni Morrison’s masterpiece, it not only shows magnificent American social customs in the twentieth century, but also reveals the social tragedy and its causes of the African-American black social groups. 

From the perspective of the lack of maternal love, the novel re-interprets the image of black children and black mothers, and it reveals the black women are oppressors under the influence of the victim white cultural values and racial discrimination at the time of the background. This article shows that the great maternal love is reflected both in bearing children and concerns for their children, and it calls on people to face up to the influence of mother. In that society which full of racial discrimination, the healthy growth of black children cannot be separated from mother’s care and love.

Key words: tragedy, maternal love, racism

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

1 Introduction.1

2 LiteratureReview.3

3 BlackFemale'sTragedyandReasons.4

3.1Blackfemale'sTragedy.4 

3.1.1Pauline'sTragedy.4 

3.1.2Pecola'sTragedy7 3.1.3Geraldine'sTragedy8 

3.2TheReasonsforTragedy.9 

4 Conlusion.11 

References14