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Examples Of Oppression In The Poisonwood Bible

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Tamyra Brown
Mr. Cairns
ENG 4U1
5 June 2023
The Representation of Feminism and Religion Oppression Oppression is when one takes control and dominates people who are less powerful in an exploitative or unfair way. When one is oppressed in a society, they suffer because of inequality, but get an improvement from their past life. Nathan in The Poisonwood Bible often disregards and treats his family unequal due to them being all females. Moreover, all of the male characters in The Color Purple treat women as objects and tend to take advantage of them. This demonstrated through the actions of rape, assault, emotional abuse and physical abuse.

In The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Nathan treats his family differently due to all of …show more content…

They both demonstrate the idea of getting rid of people or environments that make them feel less than or unequal. In The Poisonwood Bible, Orleanna and her daughters leave the Congo in order to get away from their troubling past after the death of Ruth May. As well as, in The Color Purple, Celie and Shug leave Georgia to get away from abuse, violence and neglect. Apart from this, the female characters in both stories were wronged by men. They all went through the struggle of oppression and were dominated by the opposite …show more content…

To start, all of the characters in both novels questioned their religion. Orleanna and her daughters questioned their religion due to Nathan telling them false actions about Christianity. Celie had questions about God due to her partner, Shug having different views about Christianity compared to her. Due to this, Celie had misconceptions about God because Shug is not religious. Moreover, all of the female characters were taught to fear God. They were told if they sin or disobey God, they would be punished for their sins. This false narrative made them fear God and question their actions towards

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