“You’ve been my comrade, my fellow artist, and my best friend, but you’ve never been my husband,” says Frida to her husband Diego Rivera in the film Frida. In both the films Frida and The Color Purple the women find their voice by escaping from their tradition. These two movies show two strong women battling between their societal traditions and the duties of a woman and a wife. Celie, from The Color Purple, and Frida, from Frida are extremely strong female lead roles that are based on real stories. They have to decide whether staying submissive behind their husbands and unhappy marriages is worth losing their voice and ability to make their own path and choices. The Color Purple takes place in the south during the early 1900’s. Most of the south during this time was farm land. The men worked in the field and the women ran the household but also helped in the field when needed. …show more content…
She is still a child herself and has already birthed two of her own children. Albert comes to her father wanting to marry her little sister, but her father refuses and gives him Celie. Celie suffers through rape, domestic violence, depression, sexism, racism, and isolation from her family (her two children and sister). Her husband fails to treat her like a wife but rather his servant. It’s not until Shug, Albert’s ex-girlfriend comes that Celie starts to find her individuality. “It just upset me the way she was being treated and the way she was totally dominated. But gradually, as time went on, she began to realize she could do something for herself, that she could start moving and progressing, that she could start reasoning and thinking things out for herself,” says Jacqueline Bobo in The Color Purple: Black women as Cultural Readers (Bobo 93). Shug arrived and became friend to Celie. Instead of feeling unlovable and a piece of property, Celie started looking at herself as a