Color Purple Psychology

The Color Purple movie, depicted from a novel of the same title by Alice Walker, is a strong and encouraging movie set in 1930s in the countryside of Georgia. The movie centers around a young teenage girl named Celie. Celie is an uneducated African-American girl, who out of despair began writing letters to God after she was physically abused and raped by her father. She then becomes pregnant, but her father takes her babies away from her and then coerced into marrying an abusive man, Albert, whom she calls Mister. She never called him by his name. The three social psychology concepts involved in this movie are authoritarian personality, prejudice and discrimination, and finally social identity. All three concepts played a big role in developing the character of the protagonist.
The first social psychological concept applied to this movie is of authoritarian personality. Authoritarianism refers to certain personality traits that a person has in order to determine whether the person is authoritarian or not. To be an authoritarian is to be very demanding, strict,
On the other hand, discrimination is the behavior, most of the time negative, towards the individuals of the other groups based on their gender, race, sexuality, social class, etc. For example, an individual might have negative or positive views towards a particular gender, such as a sexist, or even certain views of race. However, discrimination is taking some sort of action against certain genders or race, such as paying women less, or racial segregation (Vescio, 2013). In The Color Purple’s case, gender roles played a big part; black men discriminate against black women, more specifically their own daughter or wife. Some men were more sexist and hostile towards women than other. Celie is expected to take care of her kids, her husband, his needs, and the