The Freedom Of Choice

Toni Morrison is a great Afro-American writer of the twentieth century in America. Her masterpiece, Sula is considered to strengthen her literary force if The Bluest Eye marks Toni Morrison entry into the literary world. Morrison started writing Sula in 1969, a period of time of great activism among African Americans and others who worked toward equal civil rights and opportunities. The book focuses on the issues of racism, bigotry, and suppression of the African Americans and further comes to the probe into the self-identification of the blacks revealed in the works of American black, even exposed a truth:any black who wants to keep their own culture, tradition and self-identity must be clear of keeping and inheriting their own ethical tradition, even struggling for an authentic being and group.Kierkegaard's existentialism theory and Sartre's existentialism theory are applied to analyze Sula to reveal the issues of the self-identity, the authentic existence and even their own ethical culture and tradition of the black human beings in America.Morrison's life experience is surveyed, followed by a brief account of the novel, the brief introduction of the theory of existentialism and the thesis statement.Meanwhile, Kierkegaard's Existentialism Theory of Three Spheres, and Sula, Nel and Eve behave themselves with different life attitude from the spheres of the aesthetical, the ethical and the religious, aiming to testify their existence and self-identity in the white dominance society. What's more, Sartre's Existentialism Theory of Freedom of Choice. The African Americans have no right to choose in the white-dominance society, while under such a circumstance, with Sartre's three life existential principles----living in the adversity, the absurdity of life and freedom of choice----the author gives the detailed analysis of Sula to express their search for self-identity and black culture.From what has been discussed above, we can safely draw the conclusion that the black people need to get the power that can compare with the white, thus they can find and touch their roots, culture and self-identity, fulfilling their spiritual rebirth and authentic existence.