The Color Purple Patriarchy Essay
Gabriela Contreras
Ms. Gardner
AP English Literature
28 January 2013
The Power of Female Nurturing to Challenge and Change the abuse patriarchy make a person reshape through the Silent of their Voice
The Color Purple by Alice Walker portrays a black woman who starts off in the narrative as a powerless object and who later on becomes a woman with a strong identity. In setting of the novel is in the early 1900, Jim Crow is the time. Black women were treated poorly by whites and by the black men within their community. In The Color Purple, Walker demonstrates the woman as an object treated badly by whites’ society and her own. Celie is the novels protagonist that suffer a life time of abuse by the stepfather, she use the pain to write to …show more content…
Celie is dominated by her stepdad and her husband creating her to think of men as bad. Celie creates a relationship with her husband mistress Shug. Their relationship is significant because it help Celie enhance a sexual relationship with Shug. “Then I feel something real soft and wet on my breast; feel like one of my little lost baby’s mouth. Way after a while, I act like a lost baby too”. (Walker109) Walker evokes Celie to build confident in herself and her body. “The sexual correspondence with Shug metaphorically restores the familiar and definitively female relation.” (William) Shug affection for Shug creates a motherhood primary because Shug acts like a mother to Celie. Creating a love that helps Celie find herself and to become a stronger person because of Shug influence. The Color Purple portrays there understanding on two women who are spiritual and a server to their God (MacColl). Celie believes in a God, shouldn’t marriage or sexual actions should be between a man and a women? “The faith of her people and her love for another woman in the paradox that a church whose member is mostly should be governed by men.”
Ms. Gardner
AP English Literature
28 January 2013
The Power of Female Nurturing to Challenge and Change the abuse patriarchy make a person reshape through the Silent of their Voice
The Color Purple by Alice Walker portrays a black woman who starts off in the narrative as a powerless object and who later on becomes a woman with a strong identity. In setting of the novel is in the early 1900, Jim Crow is the time. Black women were treated poorly by whites and by the black men within their community. In The Color Purple, Walker demonstrates the woman as an object treated badly by whites’ society and her own. Celie is the novels protagonist that suffer a life time of abuse by the stepfather, she use the pain to write to …show more content…
Celie is dominated by her stepdad and her husband creating her to think of men as bad. Celie creates a relationship with her husband mistress Shug. Their relationship is significant because it help Celie enhance a sexual relationship with Shug. “Then I feel something real soft and wet on my breast; feel like one of my little lost baby’s mouth. Way after a while, I act like a lost baby too”. (Walker109) Walker evokes Celie to build confident in herself and her body. “The sexual correspondence with Shug metaphorically restores the familiar and definitively female relation.” (William) Shug affection for Shug creates a motherhood primary because Shug acts like a mother to Celie. Creating a love that helps Celie find herself and to become a stronger person because of Shug influence. The Color Purple portrays there understanding on two women who are spiritual and a server to their God (MacColl). Celie believes in a God, shouldn’t marriage or sexual actions should be between a man and a women? “The faith of her people and her love for another woman in the paradox that a church whose member is mostly should be governed by men.”