This paper explains Pecola and Gwendolen, the protagonists in two novels Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and Buchi Emecheta's
"The Family", are characters violated and oppressed in various ways by men and by the society and institutions which uphold the patriarchy. This paper relates that in "The Bluest Eye", Morrison explores the theme of male
oppression of females in the contexts of racism,
capitalism and a world run by and for white people, especially white people with power and property. The author believed, from the beginning of Buchi Emecheta's novel, the same relationship of oppression and violation is established between the black female protagonist and the males in her life.