#The bluest eye setting skin#

Unfortunately for Pecola she did not have any of those traits, ' a little black girl who wanted to rise up out the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes'(Soaphead 174).

#The bluest eye setting skin#

Being light skin with blue eyes, yellow hair and pretty clothes made you the idealistic child. In the novel,'The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison we see a young girl Pecola trying to find a way to fit in the standards of beauty being presented in her hometown. As young girls encounter the ads of women who have the perfect muscular physique they commence to become self-conscious of their body and look for ways to try an acquire the 'desired' look. In the Dove Commercial: Onslaught directed by Tim Piper informs parents to ' talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does '(Tim Piper). The media has deceived young women into thinking the ideal image for them is being small and slim.Young girls are being bombarded by images of women who are very thin and which leads them to criticize their own bodies.

Beauty is based souly upon the way society uses the media to create a rigid unrealistic gender image leading to judgements.Д«eauty has become detrimental because people have chosen to make it this way.