"Sula"

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Toni Morrison's "Sula" is one of her masterpieces and a work that turned her into one of the most powerful African-American writers of our times. This paper examines how the protagonist is Sula whose non-conformist, new-age consciousness turns her into an evil figure and an unsuitable heroine. It discusses how, even though Sula is the protagonist of the novel, she is by no means a traditional heroine and how for many, she is an evil woman who refuses to conform to societal expectations of her and does some truly inexcusable things such as sleeping with her best friend's husband.

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"Sula is the story of two black women coming of age in Ohio sometime during the two world wars. Sula is wild and aggressive woman with an individualistic streak and a strong desire to break free of tradition and rules. Nel on the other hand is the compassionate gentle figure who can best be described as a 'nice' person. But Sula is not interested in being the conformist. She is an independent woman whose personality is largely shaped by the place she lived in. it is for this reason that Morrison devotes four long pages to describing the area where Sula grew up- known as the Bottom. Bottom is a hard land given to black slaves as a gift from white masters who claimed that it was the best land around."

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