Sula Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Good and Evil in Toni Morrison.

Sula Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Good and Evil in Toni Morrison.
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Good and Evil in Toni Morrison

Summary: Essay looks at how Morrison portrays evil and how she gives the reader the power to decide who is in the wrong, if there is anyone in Toni Morrison's "Sula and Bluest Eye."
Morrison has said, "I can easily project into other people's circumstances and imagine how I might feel if...I don't have to have done this things. So that if I'm writing of what I disapprove of, I can suspend that feeling and love those characters a lot. You know, sort of get inside the character because I sort of wonder what it would be like to be this person..." Both her novels, The Bluest Eye and Sula, speak to this statement.

There are a few characters in The Bluest Eye in which Morrison takes away a negative connotation from their actions. In the Afterwords, she writes, .".., I mounted a series of rejections, some routine, some exceptional, some monstrous, all the while trying hard to avoid complicity in the demonization process Pecola was subjected to. That is, I did not want to dehumanize the characters who trashed Pecola and...

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