In Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, the relationship between Celie and Shug begins purely from a picture. With this picture, Celie for the first time feels attraction and love towards another human being other than Nettie. She can now refer to something as beautiful and this is a large stepping stone from her emotionless […]
Family, life, education and health In our last lesson as a group we discussed the differences between American and African life in the novel ‘The Color Purple’, we gathered a selection of quotes from the novel which show what life was like. America ‘He started to choke me’ – Men were abusive to women, they […]
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This poem by Yeats, is about a young child being lured away from Earth, by fairies. Although, in this poem, the fairies are not good, but evil and sinister. Linked to Yeats fascination with mythology, as these fairies are perhaps the voices of the pagan sidhe, thought to…
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This poem relates the story of a child who is lured away by fairies to a fantasy world illustrated through rich descriptions of nature and its freedom. In the first stanza, Yeats describes the magical world he has created. The fairies have hidden their “faery vats, full of berries and…
Originally posted on Ellie Whittam:
This poem relates the story of a child who is lured away by fairies to a fantasy world illustrated through rich descriptions of nature and its freedom. In the first stanza, Yeats describes the magical world he has created. The fairies have hidden their “faery vats, full of berries and…
Sofia Sofia is the assertive woman that Celie is not. She won’t back down from a fight and if anybody picks on her, she beats them twice as hard as they give it to her. Celie admires this quality, but often times it just causes Sofia trouble. Her assertive nature tends to rub white people […]
Mr.__ (or Albert as he is occasionally called) may be a jerk for most of the book, but at least he changes. Mr.__ is one of the only male characters in this novel capable of reflection and personal growth. By the end of the book, he and Celie are actually pretty good friends. The […]
Alphonso Pa is a remorseless child molester at the beginning of the book, and unfortunately no better at the end of his life. He has a fetish for teenage girls, and our first introduction to him is when he rapes his fourteen-year-old step-daughter, Celie. He seems to only value women for sex and take care […]
Nettie Nettie is the only character who loves Celie consistently and unconditionally throughout the entire novel. Because she loves Celie so strongly, Celie reciprocates the care. Their mutual love for each other remains steadfast even after the sisters are separated for thirty years without any contact. Unlike Celie, Nettie is educated and independent of […]
Celie as a Victim As the book opens, Celie is purely a victim: she’s repeatedly raped by her father, her children are taken away from her, and she’s sold into marriage to a man who wants a servant, not a wife. The only person she loves, and the only person who loves her, is her […]
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