Traumatic Saga of Dysfunctional and Domestic Depression in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Abstract

The intangible subjectivity of beauty creates inferiority and deep perpetual impact in the psyche of innocent child, and The Bluest Eye is the fine epitome of it. Toni Morrison's has indignantly exhibited the sobs and sighs of psychologically inflected wounds of the black family. The concept of the beauty has to be formed to establish the new and equal civil liberties in the world, which will inspire man to look at each other as human being. The novelist depicts a tormenting study of trauma rooted in dysfunctional family and domestic depression within African-American societies. The researcher focuses on how systemic racism, internalized notions of beauty, and socioeconomic marginalization inflict deep psychological wounds on individuals, particularly children. The novel reveals the emotional neglect, domestic violence, and cracked parental associations generate a cycle of despair and self-loathing. It also shows domestic spaces not as situations of protection but as arenas of sustained trauma, where inherited pain is silently transmitted across generations. By interrogating the imposed standards of white beauty and their destructive impact on Black identity. Pecola, the novel’s protagonist, has been victimized due to her blackness and ugliness.