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Violence In Alice Walker's The Color Purple

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Alice shares by using Celie, the protagonist of the novel, her thoughts and discusses complex topics like black women rights. Celie at the start of the novel was writing letters to God, revealing her problems and expressing the sadness of her life. They were true letters that were from Celie 's heart without any attempt to beautify, she was writing the thoughts that pass through her mind without being shame or unfair as she was very honest with herself and was very full of hope.

Celie was a strong woman who beard many suffering things, she beard getting raped from her stepfather who told her not to tell anyone so she wrote to God as he is the only one who can hear her cries. She wanted to be liberated, educated and …show more content…

Most men are disturbed by hatred and fear of women, by male violence against women, even the men who perpetuate this violence. But they fear letting go of the benefits. They were not certain about what will happen to the world they know most intimately if patriarchy changes. So they find it easier to passively support male domination ' ' ( Hooks xiii)

The previous quotation reflects many characteristics of many men characters in ' ' The Color Purple ' '. Alphanso, Celie 's stepfather, is a person who sees women as servants their jobs is to take care of his home and for sex. He makes himself the controlling person, deciding who should marry who, making Celie marry to a man she did not even know his real name and refusing to let Nettie , Celie 's sister, to marry her boyfriend. After Celie 's mother death, he married several times many different women, disregarding his responsibility as a man and their humanity. ' ' The color Purple ' ' is full of many settings that are different from social and cultural aspects. Georgia in U.S which is a place for black …show more content…

Those who act creativity to articulate black particularity, to create a consciousness of black 's ' ' being-in-the-world ' ', in Heideggerian terms, advance the universal as well as humanize and revolutionize existing notions of humanity wed to black marginality and inferiority ' ' ( 3 ).

"The Crisis Of Negritude " which is a study of black movement against oppression in 20th century by Egar. She refers many definitions of negritude, discusses how it was started as a cultural movement and arouses other great writers opinion about the meaning of negritude. It is a book which is against oppression trying to recognize the contributions of . the black people to world civilization Collins in his book ' ' Black Feminist thought ' ' empowers women showing their absolute right to be not only educated, but also

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