DOMESTIC ABUSE AND TRANSFORMATION IN ALICE WALKER’S NOVEL "THE COLOR PURPLE”
Resumen
Alice Walker African American womanist who
won the Pulitzer Prize awarded for her fiction in 1983 for epistolary
novel The Color Purple (1982), she gives her voice to those who had
no voice. The color purple is a masterpiece of Alice walker focuses on
the struggle and discriminations of African American women on the
hand of black and white men together .On the other hand, the novel
shed the light on Celie, protagonist of the novel lost her mom and her
innocence to the man she call him Pa. She raped many times and
conceived two children; hyper efficient house women who is highly
abused in a very violent domestic disturbance environment. The
impact of her beloved sister Netti, she was Celie refuge as the novel
goes as series of letters. Methods: The researchers focus on the role of
the family, society and how the male characters oppress and
discriminate the women through the novel. Results: However the
researchers conclude how those women stand against the difficulties
and found their identity through unity and women- bonding and
women should join together and support each other to reject male
dominance and self-recognition. Conclusion: Thus, Shug tries and
support Celie to identify herself as a creature, as a human being and as
a black woman.
