摘要

    西丽是《紫色》的主人公，是一个没有自我想法，任人摆布的黑人妇女。她经历了从失语到敢于自我表达的蜕变历程。本文以分析西丽的觉醒过程及其原因为主线，将西丽的觉醒过程划分了三个时期，分别是失语时期，觉醒时期，独立时期。经过分析，将影响其变化的原因归结为姐妹情谊的力量以及自我表达的力量。爱丽丝.沃克笔下西丽的成功蜕变，能够鼓舞愈来愈多的受压迫妇女起来反抗不公平待遇，勇于表达自我，为平等的社会地位斗争。

关键字：姐妹情谊；觉醒；自我表达；独立

Abstract

Celie, narrator of The Color Purple, experienced a course of awakening, from being voiceless to possessing own voice and self-worth. This thesis focuses on analyzing the course of Celie’s awakening and reasons as well. The course of Celie’s awakening is composed by three periods. They are silent period, awakening period and independent period. The reasons are power of sisterhood which womanism calls for and self-expression which plays an important role in Celie’s self-awakening.
Alice.walker presents the process of Celie’s awakening to call on oppressed women to stand up, to express themselves and to fight for equal social status.

Key words: sisterhood; awakening; self-expression; independent 

1. Introduction
1.1 Alice Walker and The Color Purple
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She was one of eight children in the family. The oppressive sharecropping system and the racism of the American South that Walker’s parents experienced had a great influenced in Walker’s writing and life. When Walker was eight, one of her brothers accidentally shot her, causing her permanent blindness in one eye. Being facial disfigurement, Walker made herself away from other children and spent most of time on reading and writing.
In 1961，Walker played an active role in African-American civil rights movement when she was a student of Spelman College where she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York two years later and traveled to Uganda as an exchange student. At that place, she became more interested in Africa.
After finishing her study there, Walker worked on black voter registration as a volunteer in 1965 and 1966, fighting for civil rights. She wrote a novel called Meridian in which she explored sexism in the civil rights movement.