The Color Purple is a novel by Alice Walker in 1982. The principal character and narrator of the story, Celie is a fourteen year old girl who encounters emotional, psychological and physical torment on account of the men throughout her life. She is impregnated twice by her step father Alphonso and sold to a chauvinistic man named Mister, who regularly beats and sexually assaults her. Henceforth, Alice Walker expands upon a focal topic of the novel i.e. the state of women and their normative gender roles.
Celie is taught to internalize oppression and abuse that becomes the hallmark for the treatment of women in her socio-cultural milieu. She readily accepts the rigid gender roles and the status of women as inferior to that of men when she states
Celie is taught to internalize oppression and abuse that becomes the hallmark for the treatment of women in her socio-cultural milieu. She readily accepts the rigid gender roles and the status of women as inferior to that of men when she states