ANN MARIA.DAVIS
1313272
2 PS ENGLISH
TOPIC: STRONG FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NOVEL -THE
COLOR PURPLE
“Relationships make our life meaningful because
man is a social animal and cannot survive alone. There are numerous occasions
in life when we have shared your joy, sorrow, happiness, and feelings with our
near and dear ones. They have offered support in ups and downs and they form a
chain with the society. “
The color purple was considered as the one of the most
splendid and powerful novel ever seen in America. Alice walker was born in
rural community of Eatonton, Georgia; in 1944.She were an American author and
activist. Alice walker wrote a critically acclaimed novel the color purple, in
1982, for which she won National book award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction .The
color purple is one of the works of her prolific poet, and feminist writer that
is best known throughout the world. Her work as a feminist and in particular a
womanist has vaulted her in to the public eye. A womanist described by walker,
is a feminist of color or black. The theory of feminism was first introduced in
the 1980s by walker herself. In an interview walker declared her interest in
analyzing social relationships and challenging the double standards so firmly
enriched in the assumption male, by the status question. Consequently, all of
her later works most notably the short stories and novels replicate this point
of view. She says that “I want to see the sights the
relationship between men and women and why women are always condemned for doing
what man do as an expression of their masculinity. Why are women so easily “tramps”
and traitors” when men are heroes for engaging in the same activity. Why do
women stand for this?”
On
this background when we glance in to the novel color purple, we can see that, entire
story is fabricated up on the strong establishment of relationships. Human
beings are social animals. They need strong relations to survive in their
environment. When we mull over up on women relationship, she can establish
relationships as a mother, as a sister, as a lover, as a wife and as a person
who cares always. The ability to establish strong relationships is one of the
beautiful features of women. In the novel color purple also pictured the
importance of relationships and its impacts. Through this essay we are going to
look at how Alice walker portrait strong female relationship in the novel.
Novel fixed on the correlation between Celie and her abusive husband Albert or Mr.
------, and shoes how this relationship affects Celie throughout the novel. In
the novel color purple, the male and female relationship is revealed by Celie’s
life and the changes she experiences throughout the book. Celie, the main
character, undergoes an inner transformation, from a submissive, abused wife to
an unabashedly confident and self-sufficient black woman and businesswoman.
Though at first Celie’s is submissive to the abusive men around her, due to the
positive influence of strong women around her, she grows into strong,
independent black women who stands for herself. The relationship between Celie
and Albert go through many changes throughout this novel. Albert or Mr. ----.
Is a man who seems to be very angry, powerful and hateful man. His father is a
man who believes that love is not the point while trying to find good wife
obedience is.
In the book The Color
Purple, Alice Walker shows us different themes in the book. The one theme that
stood out the most was the relationship between the sisters and friends that
met along the way. Reading this book I have seen different types of
relationships such as, motherly, sisterly, and also womanly. Walker refers to
the relationship between Cecile and Nettie as a motherly relationship because
when Cecile’s mother dies she feels that she has to step in and take care of
what her mother did. Therefore; when Celie was pregnant Nettie was always there
for her even when her father took Celie’s kids away. In the article The Parent
Trap they used the fatherly role so it still fits the same way if it was a
mother. This article says “regardless of age or gender the oldest child is
responsible for playing the role of a mother/farther”. For example the child in
the article was an 8 year old boy who had to take the role of his father,
because the father had left them. So in his mind he was the Man of the house
and had to look over his siblings and also help his mom out. However, Walker
shows us a similar instance with Celie; she was only 15 when her mother passed
away, therefore; she had to take upon the role of the mother now which was to
cook, clean, and take care of her siblings/ children. “Especially important for
the formulation of Walker’s political themes are the novel’s portrayals of the
dyadic female bonds that Celie forms with Nettie, Shug, and Sofia. They lead
not only to Celies personal growth but also to the formation of a female
solidarity network. It is this network of female friends that wages a strong
challenge to racist patriarchal domination. It offers the sexually and racially
oppressed woman an alternative to basing her identity solely on her familial
relationships and provides the support she needs to take action against abuse
and discrimination.” (Hollinger, 1998, Pg 179)
Alice walker is a
feminist writer. She is effectively portrait the richness in the women. As a
feminist point of view, she considered the aptitude to establish strong and
warm relationships of women are such an enormous thing. When we introspect the
main character in this novel, though at first she is submissive to the abusive
men around her , due to the positive influence of strong women around her , she
grows into a strong , independent black women who stands up for herself.
The myriad of relationships in life makes it
worth living and brings a greater degree of joy and happiness to our lives. Our
relationships bring meaning to our lives and provide the love, support and
encouragement to make it through the difficult times and the joy to celebrate
the wonderful moments in life. We have an amazing collection of relationships
quotes and sayings that honour the many special relationships that make life so
sweet.
In this novel we can see the true depiction of
string relationships of women .It is one of the most important concern in this novel.
References:
Walker, Alice. the novel color purple, new york
http://www.writework.com/essay/male-female-relationships-book-color-purple-alice-walkerhttp://www.studymode.com/essays/The-Power-Of-a-Female-Relationship-503480.html
http://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_xOm6bOt8igC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq
"The Power of a Female Relationship in the
Color Purple" StudyMode.com. 12 2010. 2010. 12 2010
<http://www.studymode.com/essays/The-Power-Of-a-Female-Relationship-503480.html>.Daniel W.
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