Set during the early 20th century in the rural south‚ the novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ portrays the life of a poor African American woman named Celie. Since being published in 1982‚ this novel was won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for Fiction‚ but is also considered highly controversial because of the references to sexual abuse and female empowerment. Throughout the book‚ the reader learns from the unexpected events that accumulate Celie’s journey to self-awareness
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Literary Analysis Outline Title: Violence is Not the Remedy Introduction In Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple she uses violence to illustrate the main character Celie’s transition from being a weak character to a strong one. In the beginning of the novel Celie is abused physically and psychologically. Her father rapes and beats his children. Her father took her out of school at a very young age‚ due to pregnancy‚ which is why Celie has very poor english skills and is ignorant to the world
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Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre illustrates the significance of self-respect‚ confidence‚ and integrity in overcoming several predicaments. Bronte portrays this through Jane‚ who possesses both a sense of self-worth and dignity‚ which are continually tested and depicted throughout the novel. These attributes are illustrated when she refuses St. John’s hand in marriage‚ leaves Rochester after discovering his secret that he is married‚ and when she bravely stands up to Mrs. Reed. Jane’s confrontation
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Jane Eyre‚ a novel about an English woman’s struggles told through the writing of Charlotte Brontë‚ has filled its audience with thoughts of hope‚ love‚ and deception for many years. These thoughts surround people‚ not just women‚ everyday‚ as if an endless cycle from birth to death. As men and women fall further into this spiral of life they begin to find their true beings along with the qualities of others. This spiral then turns into a web of conflicts as the passenger of life proceeds and often
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novel Jane Eyre‚ Charlotte Bronte uses Jane’s traumatic childhood experience to contribute the entire meaning of the story. Jane’s horrific and terrible childhood shaped the meaning of the work into being about someone who experienced a traumatic childhood and having the whole world against her‚ but yet still coming out on top. Throughout her childhood‚ Jane was raised by her cruel and unfair aunt‚ Mrs.Reed‚ she also grew up with her bratty cousins‚ John‚ Eliza‚ and Georgiana. One day Jane decides
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Background History and Context of ‘The Color Purple’ “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife‚ -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood‚ to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...” (W.E.B. Du Bois) The African-Americans or the ‘Black Americans’ are members of those ethnic groups in the United States that
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Jane Eyre is a classical novel that was written by Charlotte Bronte and originally published in 1847. At the time‚ the novel presented themes that were taboo or very uncommon in that era. One theme that is focused upon throughout the novel is that of religion. In the very beginning of the story‚ two characters who are seemingly alike and yet quite opposite in regards to religion are presented; Mr. Brocklehurst‚ the owner of the Lowood school‚ and Helen Burns‚ a student of Lowood. They both belong
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In the book “the color purple” by Alice walker she uses ironic devices to show that celie was abused mentally and physically. While she had endure the abuse it becomes worse as time passed and she felt hopeless in trying to protect herself. As shown in the book the main protagonist tells her story in a diary. In the Color Purple many ironic devices are used to show the true meaning of the book.The ironic that the author used are situational irony and symbolism. The situational irony plays a big part
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I believe to express one’s thoughts and feelings is hard to developing a sense of self‚ Celie took so much abuse and couldn’t do nothing about it makes her so strong. They would do celie so wrong so many times was horrible‚ I can’t believe her own step father abused her and raped her. The abuse to women is horrible and their needs to be a big change or a very bad consequences. Girls who are raped or abused really have no chance to stop it they can’t fight against a grown man he is too
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Purple America America was in its prime in the 1920’s. A time of many drastic changes‚ 1920’s Americans enjoyed a booming economy‚ a prosperous and wealthy upper-class society‚ and general international and national peace. For African Americans; however‚ the 1920’s meant facing economic struggle‚ racial prejudices‚ and gender stereotypes. In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ the main character Celie experiences many boundaries within the workforce‚ domestics‚ and society of the 1920’s. Through many
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