Give the understanding of COLONIZER V/S COLONIZED through Toni Morrison "The Bluest Eye"

Name: Gayatri Nimavat & Riddhi Solanki 

Roll No: 36 & 47

Class: T.Y B.A (English) Batch: 2017-2018

College: R.M.D Mahila Arts and Commerce College.

Ø INTRODUCTION

     ‘The bluest eye’ by Toni Morrison is the story of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who lives in a society which doesn’t offer any reflection of her beauty and subjectivity. This study tries to examine this novel based on theories of post-structuralist critic, Homi. K. Bhabha. In his work Bhabha challenges the notions of fixed identities, undermine the binary opposition between colonized and colonizer, and emphasizes the role of discourse and language in identity formation of both the colonizer and the colonized.

Ø Colonizer v/s colonized

       Colonizer believed in spreading their education and religion because of the belief that it was superior and also from their idea that the English way of life was the best and only way of life. All other forms were regarded and unholy and less advanced.

   

        The natives were very different from the English and their way of life was completely different, because for the first time they had only just come into contact with people outside of the Americas, and so there was no relation between the cultures at all. Unlike in Africa and Asia where trade had been established for years and connection had been made for centuries before colonization took place.

         Colonization often results in poor power relation between the colonizer and the colonized, which is likely to lead into negative stereotypes against the colonized. This in turn affects the colonized identity construction. The article discusses about the colonial construction of beauty to analyze to novel written by Toni Morrison, ‘The Bluest Eye’ [1970]. Moreover, here also supports the analysis of three important concepts of colonial problems, including constructed   concept of beauty by colonizer, power of dominance and also concept of inequality, in order to address the incapability of both main characters in constructing their beauty concept.

      

        The colonizer wants to get the blacks internalize themselves as ugly and cannot be equally compared to the whites. The conclusion of the analysis shows that both main characters cannot successfully construct and resist their own beauty concept which they hold for a quite long time; however, they are successful to be different from their ex-colonizer. This is because no one could be identically the ‘Same’ both physically and psychologically because the nature of adopting the white ethic will be never very far from mockery.

        

      Frantz Fanon states that the aim of colonization is not only to take almost all control of the colonized people’s life, but also to try to blank colonized people’s mind from all ‘From and content’. Which at last keeps the colonized people down ‘Disfigure’, and ‘Destroys’ them. By destroying the history and culture of the colonized people, the white colonizers has successfully made a new set of values for these colonized. Ashcroft claims that colonial discourse tends to exclude the exploitation of the colonized and define the colonized society as ‘Barbaric’ or ‘Uncivilized’ which justifies the colonizer intervention to improve it.

         Toni Morrison was one of the Afro-American writers who dared to speak out and challenged the white dominant cultures and the domination of these cultures. In this article, I choose to analyze novel ‘THE BLUEST EYE’ to show the position of the ex-colonized and their relation to the ex-colonizer. This novel is Toni Morrison’s first novel and written when she taught in Harvard university.

          The white colonialist strategy is to get the colonized black to undergo a process of epistemic violence, a process whereby the colonizer’s myths, to begin to see her identity through the paradigm of white supremacy.

Ø IN SUM UP

          The exploration of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in a post-colonial frame work was the main concern of this study. In this study it is attempted to deconstruct the binary opposition between the colonized and the colonizer based on theories of uncanny, stereotype and mimicry proposed by Homi.k.Bhabha. First, the concept of stereotype is discussed to clarify the anxious relationship between the colonized and the colonizer and how the scope drives play a significant role is forming stereotype. Second, the idea of mimicry or sly civility was applied to ‘The Bluest Eye’ to represent the colonized mockery of the colonizer’s dominance and at last,  or uncanny elements of novel were enumerated. The whole study tries to show the unhomely nature of the colonial world and its effects on both colonized and colonizer study shows that the simple polarization of the self and other is impossible and underneath this opposition there is a complex mutual relationship. 

About William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth                              

   Introduction

      William Wordsworth known as a nature poet. He was much famous in his time. He also became a poet laureate  in his life. He wrote so many poem about nature and human life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was his friend. In their partnership both were wrote together. Wordsworth's sister also helped them. 

        So, let's discuss in detail about Wordsworth's life and his poems.

   His early life

        William Wordsworth was born on 1770. His long life divided into four period.

    

 1)  His childhood and youth in Cumberland hills from 1770 to 1787. While Wordsworth as a famous one nature poet and this place provide him a natural elements.

  

  2) A period of uncertainly life of Wordsworth of Strom and stress. He got his university education in Cambridge and also he travels in Abroad. While traveling in abroad he got many revolution experience from 1787 to 1797.

  

  3) A short but significant period of finding himself and also started to create his own work from 1797 to 1799.

  4) A long and last period of Wordsworth life in the Northern lake region. Where he was born and where he lived full half century so close to nature and this is the same period you will find her influence in all his poetry. Wordsworth told a life which is marked , not by events but also he got spiritual experiences. 

         Wordsworth was born in 1770 at cockermouth. This is the place where he was born. In childhood he lost his parents. Wordsworth was a person of moody and violent temper. Only because of his mother despaired of him alone among her five children. She died when he was eight years old. So that he could remember his mother as:

          " The heart of all our learning and our loves "

         He was writing this sentence about his mother .After six year later the death of his mother his father was died and he became an orphan was taken in charge by relatives and also who sent him to school at Hawkshed in the beautiful lake region. Here, he attracted to nature more than the discipline of the classic and he learned more from flowers and hills and stars than from his books. You will find Wordsworth best known record in " The prelude " . In this poem three things are impressing to the reader.

      First, Wordsworth loves to be alone.

      Second, like every other child , who spends much time alone in the woods and fields. That time he feels the presence of some living spirit.

      Third, he feels every thing like his own.

         The second period of his life begins with his university course at Cambridge in 1787. In his third book of " The prelude ", he produced some literary work as a student. Here, he also tried to prove himself as a ordinary scholar and following his own genius. 

       

        Perhaps, the most intresting thing in his life is nature politics. That's why he produced his own view about the French revolution a volume of history to show the hope and ambitions that stirred all Europe.

       His later life

       The period of Wordsworth life where he was living with his sister Dorothy and with Coleridge. He had taken care of a young friend culvert , who is died and left Wordsworth to a hundred pounds and request that he should give his life to poetry. This is the unexpected gift which  Wordsworth to retire from the world and follow his genius. 

      All his life he was poor and lived in an atmosphere of plain living and high thinking. The last half century of Wordsworth life in Rudalmaint. Many other poets , who tried to give sentence about Wordsworth's life. Byron and Scott also mentioned the enthusiasm of Wordsworth and were recognized by " The first living poet" . On the death of Southey he became a poet laureate and finally he died in 1850.

       His poetry

        Wordsworth's poetry always revels simplicity. But also difficult for the readers. His poetry also revels the beauty, like "Lucy". Another poetry is   "conceit" speaking the language of simple truth, free feeling of himself and portraying man and nature as they are and in this good work we are apt to miss the beauty, the passion, the intensity that hide themselves under his simplest lines. Another is "peter Bell" and "The Idiot Boy".

    

      Poem of nature 

      1) Including many noble line in " The prelude ". He compared himself to harp. Which answer with to every touch of the wind and interesting in a sound, violant to a mountain and from of bird, the thunder of the cataract. 

   

      2) In his poetry you will find the truthfulness of his representation of beauty that he was write.

      3) No other poets ever found such abundant in the common world. 

      4) This is the last characteristic of his poetry. It is about to the recognised but sentient, personal life and the recognition of this all the world's great poetry. In his childhood Wordsworth regarded natural objects, the steam, the hills, the flowers even the wind as his companions.

      Poem of human life

1.     " Intimations of Immortality "
2.     " The Retreat"
3.     " The Rainbow "
4.     "Tintern Abbey"
5.     "Ode to Duty"
6.     "Michael" 
7.     " The solitary Reaper"
8.     " To a Highland Girl "
9.     " The Requse"
10.     " The Excursions "
11.     " The Prelude "    

          

         In sum up

       Thus, we can easily understand that William Wordsworth is one of the most famous poet in his time. He got many prize and also known as a Poet laureate. He was suffering in many struggles and pains.