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Analysis of The Color Purple
- 2. In this presentation, the writer tries to analyze Alice Walker¡¯s The Color Purple. The purpose of this writing is to analyze feminist characters in this play, theories that are used are textual, contextual, and hypertextual by close reading method.
- 3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a 1982 epistolary novel. The Color Purple tells about the little girl who named Celie, she was fourteen years old, she wrote letters to God, she had a step father who named Alphonso, she told when her father beat and raped her until she pregnant twice.
- 4. 2.1 Theory ? ¡°Character is the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that makes them different from others¡±. (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/character ? ¡°Characterization in literature refers the step by step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character. The character can be described directly by the author or indirectly through the actions, thoughts, and speech of the character.¡± (http://literary-devices.com/content/characterization) ? ¡°Feminism is the belief that women should be allowed the same rights, power and opportunities as men and be treated in the same way, or the set of activities intended to achieve this state She had a lifelong commitment to feminism¡±. (Cambridge dictionary) 2.2 Methods ? To appreciate the novel of Alice Walker, The Color Purple ? To analyze the character in Alice Walker¡¯s The Color Purple ? To analyze the psychology Alice Walker¡¯s The Color Purple
- 5. The objects of research are sorted into a material and formal object. Material object in this study is The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Formal object of this research to analyze the character and characterization and the feminism of The Color Purple.
- 6. ? Biography of Alice Walker Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the youngest of eight children, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Her father, who was, in her words, "wonderful at math but a terrible farmer," earned only $300 a year from sharecropping and dairy farming. Her mother supplemented the family income by working as a maid.She worked 11 hours a day for USD $17 per week to help pay for Alice to attend college. Living under Jim Crow Laws, Walker's parents resisted landlords who expected the children of black sharecroppers to work the fields at a young age. After high school, Walker went to Spelman College in Atlanta on a full scholarship in 1961 and later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College near New York City, graduating in 1965. Walker became interested in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist Howard Zinn, who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Continuing the activism that she participated in during her college years, Walker returned to the South where she became involved with voter registration drives, campaigns for welfare rights, and children's programs in Mississippi.
- 7. ? Summary of The Color Purple Celie, the protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia. Celie starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once. Celie gave birth to a girl, whom her father stole and presumably killed in the woods. Celie has a second child, a boy, whom her father also steals. Celie¡¯s mother becomes seriously ill and dies. Alphonso brings home a new wife but continues to abuse Celie.
- 8. 5.1 Textual Discussion Character and Characterization of The Color Purple ? Celie : She is a young black Georgia girl who faces adulthood believing that she has been raped by her father and that he killed both of their babies. The novel examines her struggle to find love, self- esteem, and continuing courage despite harsh setbacks. ? Nettie : She is Celie's sister. Celie loves Nettie more than anyone else in the world. ? Celie's Mother : She loses her mind after her husband is lynched, mutilated, and burned. After she marries Fonso, she is constantly pregnant and ill. ? Annie Julia : Albert's wife who is killed by her boyfriend while coming home from church. ? Shug (Lilly) Avery : A blues singing, no-nonsense woman who teaches Celie about love and self- esteem. ? Kate and Carrie : Albert's sisters who come to "inspect" Celie and her housekeeping. .
- 9. ? Miss Millie : The mayor's wife; a dithery white woman who fancies herself a champion of black people. ? Miss Beasley : Nettie and Celie's teacher. ? Corrine : Reverend Samuel's wife. She and her husband buy Celie's babies from Fonso. ? Olivia : Celie's daughter; she is reared in Africa by Samuel and Corrine. ? Eleanor Jane : Miss Millie's daughter; after she is grown, she does baking and odd jobs for Sofia. ? May Ellen : The woman Fonso marries after Celie's mother dies. ? Daisy : The woman Fonso marries after May Ellen leaves him. ? Tashi : An Olinka woman whom Adam falls in love with. ? Suzie Q (Jolentha): Squeak and Harpo's little girl. ? Henrietta : Sofia's youngest child, probably fathered by Henry Broadnax; ironically, Harpo's favorite. ? Jerene and Darlene : Two women who sew for Celie's Folkspants, Unlimited. ? Germaine : Shug's nineteen-year-old, blues flute playing, last-fling lover
- 10. 5.2 Contextual Discussion Feminism In The Color Purple, Celie follows the role of a typical feminine stereotype throughout the majority of the novel. Celie is very male dominated by doing everything males tell her to do, passive, and taken advantage of multiple times. In the beginning of the novel, Celie had to deal with the male bullying and domination right in her family. Her Pa rapes her at least twice when she is only fourteen years old. Along with rape that she receives from both her father and her husband, she is abused. Domestic violence is so ingrained in this culture as a norm that it takes a while for anyone to take a stand. Celie doesn't fight back because she thinks this will keep her alive. Throughout the novel, the readers are able to see strong, independent woman like Sofia and Shug that challenge this patriarchy. People in class Tweeted and wrote their blogs about how they challenged these gender roles and didn't let men make decisions for them. Sofia did not let her husband, Harpo, beat her. She fought and hit him back. She even stood up to the mayor and his wife even though she knew the consequences. Shug was able to come and go as she pleased. Mr.____ did not control her or anything she did. She owned her sexuality and was very free minded. Shug is a very respected character even though she does not follow the patriarchy norm.
- 11. Celie, the protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia. Celie starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once. Celie gave birth to a girl, whom her father stole and presumably killed in the woods. Celie has a second child, a boy, whom her father also steals. Celie¡¯s mother becomes seriously ill and dies. Alphonso brings home a new wife but continues to abuse Celie. In The Color Purple, Celie follows the role of a typical feminine stereotype throughout the majority of the novel. Celie is very male dominated by doing everything males tell her to do, passive, and taken advantage of multiple times. In the beginning of the novel, Celie had to deal with the male bullying and domination right in her family. Her Pa rapes her at least twice when she is only fourteen years old.