Themes in The Bluest Eye ( 1970)

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• violence
• economic discrimination
• psychological oppressions
• guilt/ self blame
• blaming the victim
  
  
• wasteland
• anger
• movie stars/ the media
• religion
• purity vs. stains
• whiteness
• ideas of beauty
• rejection
• ugliness
• romantic love,
• materialism
• the role of parents and what a good parent is
• sexuality and how it infuses our lives with joy or hatred,
• the perils of self-righteousness.