How Does The Color Purple Change Throughout The Novel

Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, is a tale following a poor, young, black girl named Celie throughout the journey of her life filled with violence, and recovery. The film begins with Celie giving birth to a boy; she was raped and impregnated by her own father, whom takes the baby away from her. Celie's life centered mainly around her sister Nettie, her husband called Mister, and Shug Avery: who had three children with her husband. Experiences of grief, and violence, along with moments of joy become essential to Celie’s identity development throughout the film. Suffering through the emotional, sexual, and psychological abuse caused by the male figures around her, Celie with her authentic and affectionate friendship with Shug Avery, and through the letters to her dear God and sister, manages to find her safe haven. …show more content…
The passing of time in the moment may feel like ages, but with resistance and the adaptation of normalizing the unusual, it passes by you quicker than one’s realization. Steven Spielberg, in a very cautious manner, manages to capture the age/time frame of the characters’ life of 14 years to her late 40’s, keeping his audience intact. The film evidently displays a theme central to the identity of the uneducated, struggling women’s gender identity complexly intertwined with her sexual identity. The question that The Color Purple ultimately poses is that, to gain basic respect, to what extent does one have to go in order to break the boundaries, in particular the boundaries of masculinity. Analyzing this movie of its thematic style featuring gender and sexuality in the formal/social context portrayed by the director will the be the further aim of this