Essays on The Color Purple

The novels The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, and The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, share the theme of prejudice and individuals’ preconceived notions about others. The Help is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. The Color Purple is also set in the southern states…

 Power is the ability of one to do something or act in a particular way. It can also be the ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events. However, many believe that one having power corrupts; absolute power corrupts…

To be a woman in the early 20th century was to be a couch, a stove, or even a refrigerator now in the 21st century – constantly used but not much respected or able to leave. In The Color Purple, Celie was sent to marry…

Throughout the course of the text, each character undergoes their own transformation, and all the transformations are somehow all intertwined with each other. Celie goes through a major change in The Color Purple. One way this change is expressed is by Celies’ own use of…

The Color Purple, by the American novelist Alice Walker, is not only intense and insightful, but a very thought-provoking book to read. By intense and thought-provoking, I am speaking about how the book touches and analyzes incredibly difficult and trifling aspects of the life of…

“Voice is all about your originality and having the courage to express it.” – Rachelle GardnerThrough the use of Epistolary, Black English and Standard American English, Alice Walker distinguishes unique voices between the two writers in the Color Purple.Epistolary is define as a novel composed…

The Color Purple focuses on the lifestyle of post-slave South where most of the freed slaves had already migrated to the North by 1915 and the ones that had stayed behind in the South were sharecroppers under their former masters. The South became more and…

What I know about the color purple is that it takes primary colors, red and blue, to make it. I believe that makes it a secondary color. I know some forms of the color purple are lilac, magenta, or lavender. Purple is the color of…

Walker initiates, in The Color Purple, the predicament of black women using Celie, in the form of trade and industry, and sexual exploitation in a masculine reigned and racialist culture. The novel exhibits the striking maturation and the progress of Celie, the major female character…

Racism and discrimination have been present in almost every era throughout history. Unfortunately, it still exists in our population in ways which remind us of the hardships that people of colour had to go through, mainly in the United States. Even though the world has…

Shug Avery: A Free Spirit In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, when Celie, whose brutal story the audience reads about through her letters, meets Shug Avery, Mr. __’s mistress, the audience is immediately confronted with an unlikeable character whose introduction is jarringly negative. Having…

Is Celie an Independent Woman? “I’m a strong, independent black woman who don’t need no man!” That’s the phrase that has taken the world by storm in regards to black women in American societies. These women haven’t always been this way, and it is difficult…

Overcoming Oppression in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple Women have been fighting to have an equal amount of rights as men throughout history. We have been thought of as property as well as simply being thrown to the side without much consideration in discussion. We…