1. Sula
The novel Sula written by Toni Morrison is structured around the development of friendship. It talks of love, understanding, commitment, betrayal, and coming to the reality of life on hand. Through out the novel Sula is view as being evil for leaving the Bottom and trying to make a change in her life; while Nel is view as conforming to the life of a prim and proper woman which is expected in the community. I will talk about the difference in the two characters and why Sula is not evil, but how Nel is actually the evil figure in the book. .
Sula's character in the novel is seen as being very dark, emotional and defined in a sense of evil. As a child she is viewed by the community as being very strange, mysterious, and very different from those all around her. Much of her perspective on life as an adult is shaped my two major events during her child: the drowning of Chicken Little, which she blames her self whole- heartily, and overhearing her mother denies liking her child. Sula grows up feeling very excluded, guilty and very much unloved. The only true joy that Sula is able to have in her life starts when she and Nel become best friends. The two were complete complements of each others personality and are inseparable.
As Sula grows up she develops the need for independence and a life without any real commitments. Sula in the novel, only cross this line two different time. First, when she falls in love with Ajax by devoting herself to him but only running him away from her. The second time is her devastating end of friendship with Nel, after she feels betrayed when Nel marries Jude and actually ruins it by sleeping with him. .
After Sula returns to the Bottom after being gone for ten years, all she encounters in hate and ignorance of the community. Everything that goes wrong in the Bottom is seen as Sula's fault because she had left and changed herself. After encountering all the episodes Sula had in the community and having her friendship with Nel fail; the single most important person in her life, Sula feels totally isolated.
Sula by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's Sula is a novel that has a theme about the nature of evil. ... She is especially offended by Sula's behavior, because Sula sleeps with her husband. ... Nel's outrage at Sula's actions is similar to the town's anger at Sula and we see the personal hurt that Sula's inconsiderate actions have caused. ... Nel had just gotten married, while Sula left for the city. ... Ignoring her opinion about Sula's actions with Jude, she longs for the Sula saying, "We was girls together. ...
Nel and Sula as a Dual Self In her novel, Sula, Toni Morrison uses the archetype of the dual self through the friendship of Sula and Nel: the two characters are a part of each other. ... Sula blamed herself fully for Chicken Little's accident and Nel made no attempt to change Sula's thinking. ... Sula's motive for sleeping with Jude can be explained because Nel was Sula's other half. ... Sula is very attached to Nel. ... After Sula's death, in a sense, Nel "woke up". ...
Sula "Sula" by Tony Morrison is the story of a friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who are opposites in the way of relating to other people, to the world around them, and to themselves. ... Sula is an irrational and transient character. ... Sula overhears her mother, Hannah, say, "I love her [Sula]. ... She loses her true unique self after Sula is gone. ... Nel is Sula's connection to other people, while Sula is Nel's connection to herself. ...
In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals, Nel and Sula. ... (p.29) Nel is confined, Sula is free. ... Nel was as wild and excited as Sula was. ... Nel and Sula would not speak again until three years later when Sula was on her deathbed. ... Nel and Sula gain a b...
Sula Peace is one of Nel's good friends. ... Nel assures Sula that it was just an accident, but Sula feels terrible. ... Nel is Sula's opposite in many respects. ... Sula grows up feeling guilty and unloved. ... Sula is a novel about ambiguity. ...
This is the meaning of friendship, a theme central to Sula. ... From Sula, the book, we learn the importance of friendship, the pain of betrayal, and the pain of loss. ... From Sula, we watch the girls, Nel and Sula throughout their friendship. ... Take sleeping with your best friend's husband for example, that one act, committed out of ignorance on Sula's part of Nel's feelings. Sula did not realize how she would hurt Nel, by sleeping with Jude. ...
Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. ... Like 1965, Sula represents anti-conservativism. ... For Sula, the marriage vow is not sacred. ... Sula refuses society's interpellation of her. ... In very much the same sense, Sula does the same thing. ...
In the end, Sula dies alone in her bed. ... A perfect example is Sula's grandmother Eva. ... Sula acted like anyone would expect. ... Sula may have thrown him, but Nel's apathy was far more evil than Sula's accident. ... (Sula)" "Did he see?...