Analysis on the Awakening of Black Women in The Color Purple

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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.116How to use a DOI?

Keywords

discrimination; womanism; sorority; symbolic meaning of “purple”

Abstract

The Color Purple is a significant movie because it reflects both the social and historical problems of that time profoundly. Specifically, through telling the gradually awakening of a African American girl — Celie Harris who is originally a victim of racial and gender discrimination, but at last achieves a wonderful “purple” life of success and makes achievement with other people’s help such as her younger sister Nettie and her friend Shug Avery, the movie aims to inspire other black women to gain the consciousness and manipulation over their own lives and achieve independence.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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