The Expression of Problematic Situations and Issues in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”
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This article is based on identifying the steps that the central character, Celie, in Alice Walker's The Color Purple takes towards freedom. Celie’s freedom comes from two main sources. The first is the solidarity of the women society around, which provides her with support and strong role models to follow. The second is her letters' writing, which provides a venue for her self-expression and helps her to purge herself of all the abuses that she has faced. Celie’s freedom goes through physical, then spiritual, and finally economical phases, specifically when she establishes her own business. Alice Walker believes that the harsh conditions from which Afro-American women suffer in their communities are due to, in part if not fully, the patriarchal system, classism and racism, that is why she suggests ‘womanism’ as the ideal.
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The Color Purple, Alice Walker, patriarchy, feminism, womanism, solidarity