The Growth of Celie in The Color Purple_英语论文

摘要

几百年以前，女性就已经开始努力改变男女之间的不平等。为了支持女性主义运动，很多女性作家都曾创作一些描述夫权制度下女性的悲惨境遇的作品。在小说《紫色》中，作者描述了主人公西丽身上所发生的变化。实际上，西丽从一名忍耐力极高的家庭主妇变成了能够独立谋生的女性。由于这部作品的重要艺术价值，对该作品的分析能够帮助人们拓展眼界，进一步了解爱丽丝·沃克的女性主义观点。本文将对主人公西丽的成长进行细致的分析，首先，本文将对导致西丽备受折磨的双重打击进行分析；接下来，笔者将对影响西丽成长的三个女性角色进行分析，包括耐蒂、索菲亚和莎格；最后，笔者讲对西丽的自我意识发展进行分析。本文分析将会帮助读者进一步了解20世纪女性为获得平等和自由所作出的努力。

关键词：爱丽·丝沃克 《紫色》 女性的成长 西丽

Abstract

Since several centuries ago, females had started to make efforts to change the inequality between males and females. In order to support the feminism movements, large numbers of female writers provided various works to describe the tragic experiences of females in patriarchy system. In the novel, The Color Purple, the great changes happening to the protagonist Celie was descried. In fact, Celie changed from a tolerant housewife to a lady who could depend on herself to make a living. Owning to the great aesthetic value of this novel, the analysis of such a work could help readers broaden their horizon and know more about the feminism concept of Alice Walker. In this thesis, the growth of this protagonist Celie will be analyzed in details. At first, the double depressions torturing Celie was analyzed; then the deep influence of other females on Celie’s growth was analyzed, including Nettie, Sophia and Shug;at last, the development of Celie’s self-awakening was analyzed. The analysis in this thesis will help readers know more about the efforts made by females to fight for equality and freedom in the 20th century. 

Keywords: Alice Walker; The Color Purple; Growth of females; Celie 

Contents

1  Introduction 1

2  Double Oppression 4

2.1 Racial oppression 5

2.2 Sexual oppression 6

3  Influence from Female 8

3.1 Sisterhood with Nettie 8

3.2 Friendship with Shug Avery 9

3.3 Strength from Sofia 10

4  Celie's self-awakening 11

4.1 Influence from religion 11

4.2 Change of Celie’s self-knowledge 12

5  Conclusion 14

Bibliography 15

Acknowledgments 16