The Color Purple Literary Criticism

Shug Avery is a confident black women and very independent character in the novel, in the novel Shug Avery is one of the character that are empowered and manage to stay empowered and also empower other women like Celie and squeak. Shug Avery is a very powerful character simply because she is a feminist, she acts as a role model to women around her and she doesn’t rely on any man to look after her or to tell her how she should act. Shug is introduced in the beginning of the novel when she falls ill from probably a what they call women disease: but it was probably a sexual transmitted disease since she was very well known by man all around the town: she was a very attractive lady so she found it very easy to get any man she wanted and most frankly …show more content…
In the novel women stick together, they empower each other and help one other in issues that they go through. Feminism is the main theme of this novel Sofia, Celie and Shug all portray the idea of feminism, standing up as women and being empowered as women. Literature criticism looks at feminism in literature and the color purple is an example of novels that use feminism literature feminism- feminism literature criticism looks at the equal treatment of women in socially, economically and politically in the color purple women are oppressed socially, economically and politically. Characters in the color purple are challenged with the challenged of actually challenging the patriarchal society. Celie was oppressed socially, economically and psychologically, she was a slave to the society she lived, she was abused by her father and husband and everyman that was in her life, even to some point she felt like she was a slave to God that God was just like any other man in her life that just use her and never taker her seriously.at the end Celie start free and she gains her strength, the pants that makes symbolizes her breaking free from the patriarchal society that she lived in and also her challenged the patriarchal society and its rules. Shug on the other hand represents feminism power she independent, she stands up for herself, she makes her own money and doesn’t rely on anyone and she makes love or in a relationship with both male and female, she represents both the masculine and feminine side. She has an attitude of a male she speaks however she like, she really doesn’t behave like a woman. Her relationship with Albert is what bring them closer- her and Celie. She smokes and drinks which is something that women were not suppose during the society and also she sleeps with married men, which