The Color Purple Monologue Analysis

she then viewed men as anything other than human. Because of men, she has greatly suffered, which is why Celie is happier with women in her life than men. “I don’t even look at mens. That’s the truth. I look at women, tho, cause I’m not scared of them” (7).
“They have made three babies together but he squeamish bout giving her a bath. Maybe he figure he start thinking about things he shouldn’t. But what bout me? First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man. ‘What you staring at?’ she ast. Hateful. She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws. ‘You never seen a naked woman before?’ ‘No ma’am,’ I said. ‘I never did. Cept for Sofia,
Used to be when he touch me I’d go all out my head. Now when he touch me I just don’t want to be bothered. Once he git on top of me I think bout how that’s where he always want to be. She sip her lemonade. I use to love that part of it, she say. I use to chase him home from the field. Git all hot just watching him put the children to bed. But no more. Now I feel tired all the time. No interest. Now, now, I say. Sleep on it some, maybe it come back. But I say this just to be saying something. I don’t know nothing bout it. Mr.__________ clam on top of me, do his business, in ten minutes us both sleep. Only time I feel something stirring down there is when I think bout Shug. And that like running to the end of the road and it turn back on itself.You know the worst part? she say. The worst part is I don’t think he notice. He git up there and enjoy himself just the same. No matter what I’m thinking. No matter what I feel. It just him. Heartfeeling don’t even seem to enter into it. She snort. The fact he can do it like that make me want to kill him”
For instance, Sofia is very outspoken, a “fighter”, she controls Harpo and is stronger than him, both physically and emotionally. “Sofia look half her size. But she still a big strong girl. Arms got muscle. Legs too. She swing that baby about like it nothing. She tell Harpo, hold the baby…Mr_____ blow smoke, look down at him and say, Yeah, I see now she going to switch the traces on you” (34). “All my life I had to fight. I had to fight from my daddy. I had to fight from my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain’t safe in a family of men…I loves Harpo… But I’ll kill him dead before I let him beat me” (39). Then we have Shug Avery who is strong, confident, outspoken, and sexually assertive. “That when I notice how Shug talk and act sometimes like a man. Men say stuff like that to women, Girl, you look like a good time. Women always talk about hair and health…” (77). “One thing my mama hated me for was how much I love to fuck, she say… I went to stay with my mama wild sister in Memphis. She just like me, Mama say. She drink, she fight, she love men to death. She work in a roadhouse. Cook. Feed fifty men, screw fifty-five” (111). Next, there is Harpo. He is