Freedom That is Never More Authentic Than When it is Within the Walls of a Prison Cell
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SummaryWhether it is read from an historical, psychological, literary, or any other sort of applicable perspective, the reader must admit that Toni Morrison’s novel Sula allows itself be read in many different ways. Perhaps that is one of the beauties of the book: people from many different backgrounds can find things profoundly interesting in this story focusing on young African-America girls in northern America following World War One. I agree with this, but also believe that there is a perspective that outweighs others in both insight and clarification of the novel’s motifs and symbols. That is the psychoanalytical perspective, and it is specifically the work of Jacques Lacan on the “Mirror Stage” that lends itself particularly well to this fictional work.
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- Lacan's essay deals with a human child's situation of his or her Self in reality.
- Toni Morrison's primary interest in Sula is also with identification and its formation.
- Shadrack next finds himself in a mental hospital.
- When analyzed by Lacan, an allegory presents itself through Shadrack.
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