Analysis Of The Color Purple By Alice Walker

The color purple written by Alice Walker revolves around the life of an uneducated, poor young black girl residing in the Southern America. She has gone through many traumatic experiences in her life where she is constantly subjected to physical as well as mental trauma. Though this is all narrated from one person’s point of view, we get a good description of all the other characters that are a part of her life. Each of these characters are able to portray how reality was during that time and therefore ,through each of the characters and the social scenarios that are narrated in the letters, we are able to gain a social as well as a psychological insight into the minds of the people during that time. Though this piece is considered as fiction, …show more content…
Here we see that people during times of pain and sorrow would look on to god for comfort. Any problem or issue that the people would go through during that time, look upon god to make them feel better to know someone is watching and will listen to their prayer and will make life better for them. In one of the letter she mentions that her father (Step Father) is giving dirty looks at her sister and she said that she would take care of her with god's help. So this is a clear depiction of faith in god even though the misery in her life never ended. After she was married off to a man introduced as M.r _____ initially, later on known as Albert would abuse her and treat her the same way her father (Step Father) would. The abuse she was subjected to by her father initially and her husband later is a symbol of how women were treated by the men in their lives and we see that she would not resist much to this abuse as she believed that it if she had resisted, the family would break down which she believed was worse. Nettie's letters to Celie was also hidden from Celie by Albert where he attempts to reinforce his power over her. This is symbolic of how the women were treated by men in society and how men always wanted to be the ones in power. This also they way in which …show more content…
As we know that characters of fiction also depict a lot of truth, Celia represent the women who are able to get out of that mentality and making a living of their lives and be more independent and confident. We could see that Albert could not stop Celia from leaving him because she did not have the same mentality as she had before and there was nothing that Albert could do about it. He just had to see her leave him for Shug and he could do nothing but feel upset about it. Even after Shug left Celie for another man, Celie was still able to control her emotions and not let that stop her from still finding love. It is Celie changing her mindset from being a victum to being a more indipendent and confident person which made all the difference in this story and which is inspirational for many other women, to give them a feeling that they can also make a difference if they make an attempt to change themselves and the way they