Alice Walker's The Color Purple
The novel is written in an epistolary form of day to day letters that demonstrates the growth of two sisters using a feminist theory. One is a missionary in Africa and the other is a child wife living in the south. They both place their loyalty and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. The Color Purple explores the issues of racism, sexual roles, men, and social injustice. From the very first page the readers are confronted with harsh images and intense scenes that show a sorry lifestyle. Through the use of strong female bonds Alice Walker illustrates not only the need to resist patriarchal ideals but the unraveling of a path for women’s rights.
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At this point the Celie works with what she has. She approaches this period only with the help of Shug Avery. Female bonds are a major theme as well as a reoccurring motif in this novel. Walker’s The Color Purple demonstrates female relationships of becoming friends, being there for one another, and rising themselves to a higher level. Celie connects spiritually and emotionally to the girls around her. Sofia helps Celie assert her voice into the house. “You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can’t do it for you. You have to do it yourself” (Walker, Color 21). Sofia has always helped Celie maintain her cool and gives her advice on how to handle her problems with Albert. When Shug Avery comes along she shows Celie a different path in life. She helps Celie realize that there is more to her life then what she is living now. Shug makes her become conscious of the opportunities out there and helps her open up her own business that flourished creatively and financially making folk pants. Doing so Celie has gain self-respect for herself and believed more in her dreams. Female bonds helped make Celie a kid again with dreams and ambition, and fantasies of making those dreams come true in reality. Only by forcefully talking back her self-esteem from the men she is able to break the cycles of sexism and violence, causing the men to realize life without her is not easy and she should be recognized by both Alphonso and
The incomplete woman plays the role that is exploited with a warped spirit …show more content…
At this point the Celie works with what she has. She approaches this period only with the help of Shug Avery. Female bonds are a major theme as well as a reoccurring motif in this novel. Walker’s The Color Purple demonstrates female relationships of becoming friends, being there for one another, and rising themselves to a higher level. Celie connects spiritually and emotionally to the girls around her. Sofia helps Celie assert her voice into the house. “You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can’t do it for you. You have to do it yourself” (Walker, Color 21). Sofia has always helped Celie maintain her cool and gives her advice on how to handle her problems with Albert. When Shug Avery comes along she shows Celie a different path in life. She helps Celie realize that there is more to her life then what she is living now. Shug makes her become conscious of the opportunities out there and helps her open up her own business that flourished creatively and financially making folk pants. Doing so Celie has gain self-respect for herself and believed more in her dreams. Female bonds helped make Celie a kid again with dreams and ambition, and fantasies of making those dreams come true in reality. Only by forcefully talking back her self-esteem from the men she is able to break the cycles of sexism and violence, causing the men to realize life without her is not easy and she should be recognized by both Alphonso and