Who Is The Antagonist In The Color Purple
Characters
The protagonist/main character of the novel is Celie, who writes the ‘letters of God’. Her personality, at least in the beginning, is not able to be fully expressed since she is almost like a slave when it comes to her father and her family. But then at the middle and end of the novel, she begins to show her personality more as she is not as persecuted and held back. Celie has more of a caring, kind, and a bit fierce personality. Celie also has a loving personality towards Shug, since Shug was one of the people that helped Celie express herself more.
In The Color Purple there is no direct antagonist in my opinion, but the people that could be seen as antagonists would be Celie’s “father” in the beginning of the book, as well as Albert …show more content…
Albert also does not prevent his children from attacking Celie , and Celie has a very bad beginning as Albert’s wife. The abuse continues throughout the book until Albert manages to get a grip at the end, and realizes the magnitude of what he has been doing to Celie. There are many other conflicts that Celie faces, but the abuse from Alfonso and Albert is the main conflict she faces.
Two characters that are different are Sofia and Celie. While Sofia has a fighting spirit, Celie does not and is a timid person, letting herself be abused by her peers. Sofia, on the other hand, does not allow this to happen, as shown when Harpo attempts to abuse her but fails. Another way that they are different is the fact that Sofia can resist even man and even defies the town mayor. Celie cannot do this and barely manages to survive through all the abuse and just submits, without Shug to help her, I am sure things would have turned for the worse for …show more content…
Since Celie faces so much abuse and is rarely loved, she has one of the lowest social classes in the book, and is not respected at all, and used as a slave to work for others. Most of the time people ignore her needs, for example when Albert’s sisters come to visit, and they tell him to buy Celie some clothes, but he responds with “she needs clothes?” and looks bewildered. This shows that no one seems to care about her and she is often ignored (at least in the beginning of the book). Towards the middle and end of the story Celie rises in social class as she starts to believe in herself and becomes
The protagonist/main character of the novel is Celie, who writes the ‘letters of God’. Her personality, at least in the beginning, is not able to be fully expressed since she is almost like a slave when it comes to her father and her family. But then at the middle and end of the novel, she begins to show her personality more as she is not as persecuted and held back. Celie has more of a caring, kind, and a bit fierce personality. Celie also has a loving personality towards Shug, since Shug was one of the people that helped Celie express herself more.
In The Color Purple there is no direct antagonist in my opinion, but the people that could be seen as antagonists would be Celie’s “father” in the beginning of the book, as well as Albert …show more content…
Albert also does not prevent his children from attacking Celie , and Celie has a very bad beginning as Albert’s wife. The abuse continues throughout the book until Albert manages to get a grip at the end, and realizes the magnitude of what he has been doing to Celie. There are many other conflicts that Celie faces, but the abuse from Alfonso and Albert is the main conflict she faces.
Two characters that are different are Sofia and Celie. While Sofia has a fighting spirit, Celie does not and is a timid person, letting herself be abused by her peers. Sofia, on the other hand, does not allow this to happen, as shown when Harpo attempts to abuse her but fails. Another way that they are different is the fact that Sofia can resist even man and even defies the town mayor. Celie cannot do this and barely manages to survive through all the abuse and just submits, without Shug to help her, I am sure things would have turned for the worse for …show more content…
Since Celie faces so much abuse and is rarely loved, she has one of the lowest social classes in the book, and is not respected at all, and used as a slave to work for others. Most of the time people ignore her needs, for example when Albert’s sisters come to visit, and they tell him to buy Celie some clothes, but he responds with “she needs clothes?” and looks bewildered. This shows that no one seems to care about her and she is often ignored (at least in the beginning of the book). Towards the middle and end of the story Celie rises in social class as she starts to believe in herself and becomes