Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: This thesis focuses on causes of the heroine Pecola’s Tragedy in The Bluest Eye, maiden work of the African-American female writer Toni Morrison. This paper aims to analyze Pecola’s tragedy from the society, her family, her character and her aesthetic dissimilation. This thesis concludes that the origin of Pecola's Tragedy is the loss of black culture and black people's aesthetic dissimilation, which is the result of the impact of white dominant culture on black culture. Meanwhile, Pecola is a representative of the black masses who discard their national culture and blindly respect the white culture. Pecola’s tragic fate is the epitome of the miserable life of black people.

Key words: The Bluest Eye; Pecola; causes of tragedy

摘要：本文旨在研究黑人女作家托尼•莫里森的处女作《最蓝的眼睛》中佩科拉的悲剧成因，通过剖析来自社会、家庭以及其自身性格、自我审美异化的内外两方面因素来分析主人公佩科拉悲剧命运，得出以下结果：佩科拉悲剧形成的根本原因是白人强势文化对黑人弱势文化的冲击——黑人文化的流失，黑人审美的异化。与此同时，佩科拉是抛弃本民族文化、一味尊崇白人文化的黑人大众的典型，她的悲剧命运即是黑人悲惨生活的缩影。

关键词：《最蓝的眼睛》；佩科拉；悲剧成因

1. Introduction
Toni Morrison is the first African-American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in history. So far, she has published nine novels: The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1974)，Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), Paradise (1999), Love (2003), and A Mercy (2008). All her novels are dedicated to representing the life of the black America. Morrison herself considers her works more fundamentally as a part of the black cultural tradition, and commits herself to creating a distinctive black literature. The Bluest eye is her first novel to explore the impact of slavery on the black. The story is about a young black girl, Pecola. The girl is considered to be ugly by others, and she herself also believes so because the pervasive idea of beauty is whiteness while she is especially black. The title The Bluest Eye echoes the fervent wish of the protagonist for a pair of blue eyes to transform her bitter life. At the end of the story, Pecola, who is raped by her father and whose wish for blue eyes cannot be realized, is driven mad in a community lack of love.