The Life of Choice and Freedom: The Protagonist’s Existential living In Toni Morrison’s Sula
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Abstract
Sula is a novel by Toni Morrison which portrays the effort of a young black
female, Sula, to live the life of existential freedom with the choices and freedom of
her own. The story of Sula focuses on how Sula, the central character, fights for her
existential freedom, despite the hopelessness, suffering, alienation, social humiliation
and hindrances she comes across as she grows up. This study has tried to explore the
protagonist's view towards life, love, society, family, good and evil and many other
things in the light of existential perspectives. In the initial chapter, this study has
presented the introduction to the title, life of the writer Toni Morrison and the
identification of existentialism in the novel using the reviews of literature. In the
second chapter, this study has emphasized on the historical background of
existentialism, its main contributors and theory itself. Similarly, in the third chapter,
the study has analyzed the novel critically and analytically. In the final chapter, it has
presented the legacy created by Sula on the basis of its textual analysis and presents
the final view on it. It has also concluded the needs of existential freedom in life to
live holistically.