LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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A Critical Analysis of Sula by Toni Morrison

P. Sreenivasulu Reddy, Ph.D.

Introduction

Toni Morrison got recognition as a writer with her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970. In 1973 she has published her second novel Sula and she has been writing ever since. In this novel the protagonist, Sula Peace, lives a life of fierce independence and total disregard for social conventions. Toni Morrison gave us an insight into Sula’s personality, “she had no center, no speck around which to grow”, thus, “no ego”. Such absence of a structure and foundation led to the decision “to be consistent only with herself”. That in its turn appeared to result in selfishness, indulgence of sexual desires and total absence of respect towards everything that does not concern her. This article attempts to analyze how the plot of this novel is well knitted into various themes of this novel and characterization.

Plot Analysis

The plot of Sula consists of two parts. The novel opens around 1965 with a prologue; after the first section, it jumps back in time to the year 1919. From that point, the plot moves forward chronologically until the very end of the novel, which is also set in 1965. In between the beginning and end, each chapter is titled by a year. Even though the book spans a lifetime, the plot is not hard to follow because of the time designations.

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P. Sreenivasulu Reddy, Ph.D.
Head, Department of English
V. R. Institute of Post Graduate Studies
Nellore 524001
Andhra Pradesh
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