How were the women treated during the 1980s? The women who live in the 1980s are tortured to do everything the male asks and the female have no rights, this is shown in the novel “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker. In the novel The color purple the author tries to show how women were disrespected by men, the women were disrespected by their own father, brother, and husband. The male characters in the novel shape, break and have influence over other characters. The male characters in the novel shape, break and have influence over other characters. The male characters have a major impact on the characters of the novel and shape the life of the characters. Celie who was a normal child had her life shaped by the women in her life.
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The men destroyed the dreams and hope of all the women in the novel. The men wanted the women to feel bad and follow all their rules because they thought they were superior and women weren't supposed to do anything like be independent and do anything that they like. Celie wanted to go to school with Nettie and she hoped for it for a long time, after few days school started Celie's stepfather stopped her from going to school and only let Nettie go to school because he thought that Celie was dumb and ugly whereas Nettie was beautiful and smart. Celie's stepfather made her do all the work in the house whereas she wanted to do was to go to school and play with her sister like any other girl thereby breaking Celie's dreams another one of Celie's dreams were broken by Celie's stepfather, she wanted the babies that were created by her stepfather but the babies were taken away from her by her stepfather. Nettie Celie's sister also had her dream broken by Celie's husband. She ran away from her house because she was always disrespected by her stepfather to Celie's house with the dream of playing with Celie and going to school but her dream was broken by Mr. Albert when he threw her out of the house because nettie hit Mr. Albert when he tried to rape her when Nettie was going to school. All the women in the novel had their dreams broken by men. Men did not allow women to marry who they want to like Mr.
The men destroyed the dreams and hope of all the women in the novel. The men wanted the women to feel bad and follow all their rules because they thought they were superior and women weren't supposed to do anything like be independent and do anything that they like. Celie wanted to go to school with Nettie and she hoped for it for a long time, after few days school started Celie's stepfather stopped her from going to school and only let Nettie go to school because he thought that Celie was dumb and ugly whereas Nettie was beautiful and smart. Celie's stepfather made her do all the work in the house whereas she wanted to do was to go to school and play with her sister like any other girl thereby breaking Celie's dreams another one of Celie's dreams were broken by Celie's stepfather, she wanted the babies that were created by her stepfather but the babies were taken away from her by her stepfather. Nettie Celie's sister also had her dream broken by Celie's husband. She ran away from her house because she was always disrespected by her stepfather to Celie's house with the dream of playing with Celie and going to school but her dream was broken by Mr. Albert when he threw her out of the house because nettie hit Mr. Albert when he tried to rape her when Nettie was going to school. All the women in the novel had their dreams broken by men. Men did not allow women to marry who they want to like Mr.