Celie's Journey to Freedom: A Study of the Steps She Takes and the Means that Support Her in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

AL Qaisi, Ashraf Asa'd (2016) Celie's Journey to Freedom: A Study of the Steps She Takes and the Means that Support Her in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Masters thesis, جامعة الشرق الاوسط.

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Abstract

This study aims at identifying the steps that the central character, Celie, in Alice Walker's The Color Purple takes towards freedom.Celie’s freedom comes from two main sources. The first is the solidarity of the female community around, which provides her with support and strong role models to follow. The second is her letters' writing, which provides a venue for her selfexpression and helps her to purge herself of all the abuses that she has faced. Celie’s freedom goes through physical, then spiritual, and finally economical phases, specifically when she establishes her own business. Alice Walker believes that the harsh conditions from which Afro-American women suffer in their communities are due to, in part if not fully, the patriarchal system, classism and racism, that is why she suggests ‘womanism’ as the ideal. Key words: The Color Purple, Alice Walker, patriarchy, feminism, womanism, solidarity.

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