Abstract

Pecola was a black girl who lived in the Great Depression. As a black girl growing up in a family in short of parental love, she suffered greatly from the schoolmate’s taunt and teacher’s indifference, and even worse, the rape from her father. She was also a victim of the white culture aggression in America and got lost in the allusion of having blue eyes, which become the origin of her tragic fate.
This thesis has three parts. The first part gives a brief introduction of Toni Morrison and The Bluest Eye, one of her masterpieces. In the second part, the author analyzes the tragic life of Pecola. She is the victim of racial discrimination who pursues a pair of blue eyes with a distorted self-value and aesthetic standard. In the third part, the author analyzes the causes that result in the tragic life of Pecola such as the depressive social environment, unhappy family and the personality defects of Pecola’s lack of self-identity and lack of resistance.
By analyzing Pecola’s tragic fate, this paper appeals the African Americans to dominate their own destiny. If they betray their own culture in the pursuit of an alien value, they would loose their confidence and even the hope of the nation. What’s worse, the young generation of the African Americans would follow the tragedy of their parents and be trapped in the vicious circle of racial discrimination.

Key words: Pecola; self-identity; self-awareness; tragic fate
 
摘  要

佩克拉是生活在美国经济大萧条时期的一个黑人小女孩。自小在缺乏双亲关爱的家庭长大，这个黑人小女孩遭受着同学的奚落和老师的冷漠，甚至还遭受了父亲的强暴，更糟糕的是，她还是美国白人文化价值侵略的受害者，最终陷入拥有一双最蓝的眼睛的妄想中，这就是她悲剧人生的根源。
这篇论文分为三个部分：第一部分简要的介绍了托妮•莫里森和她的作品《最蓝的眼睛》。第二部分析了佩克拉的悲剧命运：她是种族歧视的受害者，疯狂的追求蓝眼睛，自我价值和审美标准的扭曲。第三部分分析了造成佩克拉悲剧命运的原因，包括了：抑郁的社会环境、不幸的家庭以及佩克拉自我认同感的缺失和自我意识的缺失。
本篇论文通过对佩克拉悲剧命运的分析，呼吁黑人同胞要掌握自己的命运。如果黑人脱离了自身的文化而追求外来文化，就会失去他们的自信和民族的希望，而年轻一代的非裔美国人将会重蹈他们祖辈的覆辙，陷入白人种族歧视和文化压迫的恶性循环中。

关键词：佩科拉；自我认同；自我意识；悲剧命运