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On
Celie
’
s growth factors
----the Comments on
The
color purple
Li
Ze Qin
李泽琴
Class 5, Grade 2008
No. 2
The School of
Foreign Languages
China West Normal
University
A Paper for
Appreciating English Movies
May 2012
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On
Celie
’
s growth factors
----the Comments on
The
color purple
Abstract:
The
Color
Purple
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adapted
from
a
novel
Purple
by
Alice
Walker
expresses
the
waking of feminism
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well. When she is treated callously
and faces numerous maltreat, then she
turns
to
a
self-valued
and
independent
woman
and
achieved
her
happiness.
For
her
dramatic
change,
factors
can
be
divided
into
oppression
from
Alphonso,
Mr.
or
Albert,
and,Sisterhood with NettieNettie,
friendship with Shug Avery, and Strengh from Sofia
Key words:
The
Color Purple,
Womanism
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, rebellion
,
self-valued,
oppression
The
film
The
Color
Purple
tells
story
taking
place
in
the
Southern
United
States
during the early- to
mid-1900s .In the beginning of the movie, Celie
suffers great pain
of childbirth, When
she was only fourteen years old, she gave birth to
the child of her
stepfather
who
sold
the
the
baby,
also
threatened
Celie
“
you
better
not
never
tell
nobody but God.
So she could only talk to God though
she never gets back god
’
s
answer. The film focuses on the change
of the protagonist, Celie. Celie marries a local
widower whom she calls
whose
name is Albert. Every day, Celie clean up
Albert’
s
disorderly
household
and
take
care
of
his
children.
Celie
is
beaten
and
intimidated
into
submission.
Nettie
comes
to
live
with
them,
and
they
live
happily
together and Nettie
begins to teach Celie how to read. Nettie is
kicked out. Finally,
Celie, the black a
poor African American girl, who once never said
anything against
father
or
husband,
with
the
assistance
of
Shug,
got
out
of
the
miserable
life
and
became
an
independent
woman.
The
factors
for
her
dramatic
change
can
be
categorized
into
two
parts,
that
is,
oppression
from
Alphonso,
Mr.
or
Albert,
and
Sisterhood with Nettie,
friendship with Shug Avery, and Strength from
Sofia
Oppression from
Alphonso and Mr. or Albert
Alphonso is
Celie
’
s stepfather who
marries
Celie’
s mother even
though there is
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no love and craves for the
fortune of Celie
’
s father
left by Celie
’
s poor father.
He does
many
evil
things
to
Celie
and
her
sister,
Nettie.
Alphonso
orders
Celie
to
do
housework
and
deprive
her
right
on
education.
Alphonso
turns
to
Celie
for
his
sex
desire When
Celie
’
s mother gets ill.
Thus being hopeless, Celie starts writing to God.
Gradually, under the abuse and
oppression of her father, Celie loses her-self
value and.
Alphonso refuses to let
Celie marry minister instead of Nettie. Mr.
eventually accepts
the offer; this
marriage proves to be a kind of business, in which
money is every thing
while
Celie
’
s thought is never
taken into count because Mr takes Celie into a
difficult
and joyless married life. And
our Celie
’
s world is worse
than worse. Constant abuse
pesters her
for many years.
Albert was
married previously, whose wife was murdered.
Albert mistreats Celie
just as her
father had, and she tolerates it, never has she
understand that she doesn't
have to. In
Albert
’
s eyes Celie is not a
person, just a machine. Celie has to help
raise
Albert
’
s
children,
not
being
their
real
mother,
she
lives
a
hard
time.
Mr.
holds
absolutely control over Celie, In this
house,. When he is in bad temper, when Celie
does not satisfy him, he just beats her
violently. And he does not allow any rebellion
to him. When he needs her, he pays
heeds to her, but when not, Celie is an invisible
man.
In
his
mind,
he
has
never
shown
respect
for
Celie.
And
he
even
brings
his
mistress,
Shug
Avery
into
family
and
all
day
runs
around
her
regardless
his
responsibility to Celie as a husband.
Sisterhood with Nettie
Celie
’
s and her
sister
Nettie’ correspondences
make
up their priceless Sisterhood
to each other. The have love for one
another, which is sisterly and sexual, Young as
Nettie is, she influence Celie a lot.
Firstly, Nettie is Celie's younger
sister, by marrying Mr, Celie saves Nettie from
living
the
tragic
life
that
she
should
have
endured
.
When
Nettie’
s
life
at
home
is
unbearable, she runs away to Celie.
When Mr. forces Nettie to leave, she promises to
write to
Celie and that only
God can keep them apart. Nettie travels
to
Africa with
Samuel
and
Corrine,
a
missionary
couple
as
a
missionary.
She
undergoes
many
adventures
in
Africa.
These
experiences
turn
Nettie
from
a
girl
to
an
independent
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