Essentialism and Self-Identity Construction in Toni Morrison’s “Sula”-Take Sula and Shadrack as an Example

From around the end of First World War to mid-1960s, as voices exploited and oppressed black groups were drowned out by white supremacist ideas, people generally suffered from racial discrimination, stereotypes brought about social essentialism impact impressions. The construction identities marginalized becomes a matter concern. For Toni Morrison’s novel “Sula”, existing research has obtained image analysis characters in symbolic meaning novel, character identity, embodiment traditional culture “Sula”. However, few studies have combined identity Sula’s Shadracket’s analyses. Therefore, this thesis explores well Sula Shadrack’s resistance self-identity combines theoretical textual analysis. used her unique heterogeneous behavior break through shackles on women. In contrast most women, she constructed different way which can be better understood using Plato’s “cave theory”. Shadrack created “World Suicide Day” resist uncertainty death prejudice “mirror” re-construct his Lacan’s “mirror stage” theory explain.