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Relationships in "The New Dress" and "The Color Purple", 2006.
Compares and contrasts the female relationships portrayed in Virginia Woolf's "The New Dress" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
1,585 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This essay compares and contrasts the roles of the female relationships in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and Virginia Woolf's "The New Dress". The paper explains that, for Woolf, the relationships serve to ignite the main character's own insecurities about herself, her appearance, her nature, and her background, whereas Walker's female relationships are used almost as a buffer between the male-dominated, white-dominated world and an autonomous sphere where women can understand and explore themselves.
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"Black women in The Color Purple are afforded a form of sovereignty from the tumultuous events and people surrounding them: they maintain their identity despite the forms of oppression they are forced to face. By these means, the women in The Color Purple earn their right for happiness; they can only enjoy their outward lives through accepting their inner emotional states. Although these women are prepared to fight if the need arises, and laugh and cry as they feel the need, it is truly through their capacity to love that they achieve anything in the external world. Essentially, female companionship is what gives Walker's characters the strength to continue through their chaotic lives. Pain, sorrow, hopes, and dreams are all shared and made communal in The Color Purple; in this way, they borrow from each other's strengths in times of weakness, and give their strengths to those who need them."
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Women And Religion in "The Color Purple", 2008.
A review of the theme of the importance of female relationships and their importance in society as seen in Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple."
1,781 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses Alice Walker's 1982 novel, "The Color Purple." The paper looks at the issues in this novel, such as gender differences and dynamics, social issues, religion and its impact on the world and racial tensions. The paper focuses specifically on theme of the importance of female relationships and their impact on the dissolution of a patriarchal God figure that dictates the roles of womanhood.
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"Celie begins to liberate herself from the dogmatic and deeply embedded images of religion after Shug expresses her own thoughts about God. Instead of writing letters to God, Celie now begins to write letters to her sister Nettie. Celie states to Nettie "trying to chase that old white man out of my head. . .[is] hard work. . .He been there so long, he don't want to budge. . .I hardly pray at all. . .I. . .[write] to you instead of to God" (Walker 179-180). Because of the friendship that Walker establishes between Celie and Shug, this internal transformation in Celie's self-awareness about God and religion is able to take place. Because Celie is no longer fearful of who or what God is, she is able to make other liberating decisions in her life. For example, she tells her berating husband that he is "a lowdown dog" (Walker 181) and that "it's time to leave [him] and enter into the Creation" (Walker 181). Celie's former acquiescence to a controlling male environment is clearly evaporating from her own world due to Shug's personal influences. James C. Hall (1992) explains that it is Shug's own rejection to the patriarchal view of God that makes possible "the way for Celie's selfhood" (Hall 94)."
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"The Color Purple", 2002.
A review of the book, "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, focusing on the main character's personal reawakening.
1,712 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. Specifically, it examines the significance of purple in the novel, and describes how it relates to reawakening in the literary work. The paper illustrates how the color purple is a constant thread woven throughout the novel, and how it sets the stage for the main character, Celie's, reawakening by the end of the story.
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"The Color Purple" is an emotional and inspiring story of Celie, a woman who has faced nothing but abuse and violence in her life. She is married to Albert, a man who does not love her. Her stepfather repeatedly raped her, and he took away the two children resulting from the incest. Albert repeatedly beats her and tells her she is "nothing." "You Black, you pore, you ugly, you a woman. Goddam, you nothing at all" (Walker 176). Known only as "Mr. ---------" early in the novel, he only married Celie to take care of his children, because he was really in love with her sister. He even brings his sick mistress to the house and makes Celie nurse her back to health."
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'Song of Solomon' and 'The Color Purple', 2002.
Examines themes of freedom in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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In Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", psychological and emotional freedom is presented as a goal that has to be earned. In the case of each novel's main characters, that freedom is earned by rising above and moving beyond suffering and pain: the characters transcend their old, hurtful existences and achieve freedom from what dragged them down earlier in life. Milkman Dead in "Song of Solomon" and Celie in "The Color Purple" achieve very different kinds of freedom. Celie's story ends in an almost stereotypical "happy ending," while Milkman Dead's fate is much more ambiguous, but both characters leave their past pain behind and move into a better present.
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The Different Voices of ?The Color Purple?, 2004.
A discussion of how Alice Walker portrays social issues in the rural South during the first half of the 20th century in her book, ?The Color Purple?.
1,275 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper examines Alice Walkers's novel ,"The Color Purple", and reveals how, through the characters of the book, Walker addresses several social issues of the era. In particular, it looks at how, throughout the novel, she is devoted to exploring women?s roles within the patriarchal system, emphasizing their desires for freedom, spirituality, and creativity and how she is able to communicate to the reader what it means to be poor, black, and female in the rural South during the first half of the 20th century. It shows how, through the lives of the characters in "The Color Purple", she presents several individual social aspects such as patriarchy, sexuality, and spirituality.
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"Walker advocates freedom of expression for women. She also believes that a person who is not free to express his or her love is a slave of themselves, just as anyone who would prohibit expression of love has a ?slaveholder?s mentality? (Living 91). Celie is beaten by her stepfather because he says she has winked at a boy, she writes: ?I don?t even look at mens. That?s the truth. I look at women, tho, cause I?m not scare of them.? (Color 6). Celie is attracted to Shug. ?First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery, I thought I had turned into a man? (51). The two women lived together for awhile until Shug meets a young man and falls in love with him. Celie is heartbroken and returns home. During this time of her life, Celie and Mister become friends and he proposes marriage."
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"The Color Purple", 2002.
A comparative essay showing the differences between Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and the movie based on the novel, directed by Spielberg.
1,180 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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The paper shows the differences between the novel by Alice Walker, "The Color Purple" and the film by the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg. The paper shows the distinct differences between film and the literature that inspired both versions of "The Color Purple", differences unique to each different media that yield very different effects upon the reader and upon the viewers of Walker's tale.
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"In contrast, Celie";s pregnancy in the film is revealed not verbally but visually. Film is often called a visual rather than a verbal medium and the film";s rendering of this event confirms this. In the film, a sense of Celie";s innocence is conveyed by the young girl"\";s voice singing songs with her younger sister, the sight of the child Celie playing patty-cake with her sister and the two girls running through green fields. The scene looks idyllic, until the young actress playing Celie becomes entirely revealed from head to toe. Then, the viewer suddenly realizes with a jolt, the child is pregnant."
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Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", 2006.
Compares and contrasts Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple", with that of Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the novel.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 89.95
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The Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker was translated into cinematic form by the popular American director Steven Spielberg in 1985. The representation of a literary work in a radically different media form presents many complicated issues for directors who are not only incorporating their own vision of a text into their adaptation but must also consider such issues as commercial interests and film censors. This essay argues that the differences between the novel and the film version of "The Color Purple" are extraordinary and go beyond simple additions or omissions.
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"The Color Purple", 2004.
A discussion on the relational connections between the characters in "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
879 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 31.95
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This paper reviews the novel, "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, and looks at how the characters relational identity towards one another plays a significant role in the development of each character. Specifically, it looks at how the relationships between Celie and the other characters begins to define her and change her throughout the novel. It shows how relationship between Celie and Shug Avery is the focus from early on in the book, as is the relationship between Celie and her sister, Nettie.
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"The characters relational identity towards one another in The Color Purple played a significant role in the development of each character. Specifically, the relationships between Celie and the other characters begin to define her and change her throughout the novel. The relationship between Celie and Shug Avery is the focus from early on in the book as well as the relationship between Celie and her sister, Nettie. Once Nettie?s letters are found some of the focus returns back towards Nettie."
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"The Color Purple", 2002.
A review of the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
1,036 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the story of "The Color Purple", an emotional and inspiring story of Celie, a woman who has faced nothing but abuse and violence in her life. It examines the significance of reawakening in the work and how as the novel progresses, Celie experiences a reawakening of her self-worth which propels her life in a new direction. It evaluates how this reawakening could not have happened without her letters, her spirituality and the input of people like Sofia.
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"Celie's sister Nettie is really the catalyst for Celie's transformation. She writes to Nettie when she has no one else in the world. It is Nettie who she looks up to, and Nettie who has gotten away from the family and made her own successful life. Nettie is one of only two people Celie has allowed herself to love, which makes her all the more important. It is through her letters to Nettie that she first begins to understand herself, and start on the path toward her reawakening. When she finds out Albert has been hiding Nettie's letters, she has gained the strength to stand up to him."
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The Hollywood Version of 'The Color Purple', 2005.
This paper looks at the Hollywood adaptation of the book "The Color Purple".
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses that the film adaptation of 'The Color Purple' necessarily changes the content of the novel in order to create an epic Hollywood spectacle. The writer points out that it retains the essence of the story that stirred many black women. The writer notes that it is still the story of a beaten down black woman who with the love of her black sisters triumphs over adversity to become an independent woman and entrepreneur.
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"The Color Purple", 2007.
This paper evaluates the race, sexism, letters and sewing within "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
1,687 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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The paper examines the racial, sexist, letter and sewing symbolism within "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. The paper analyzes how Walker treats the issues of slavery and patriarchal male constructs in the novel and thus defines the female African-American experience.
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"The sexism within The Color Purple is controlled through a patriarchal racist institution of slavery. In one example in the novel, slave women had no rights to their children after birth. Nettie is a woman that has given birth to children, but plantation owners took their children after birth to sell into slavery. The issue of male dominance plays a major role in how women are perceived, especially as servants to the male populations on the plantation and within society. Although it might be easy to perceive the anger in Netti or Celie's voice in the novel, one really sees a women trying to stay alive and find people with love in their hearts."
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"The Color Purple", 2005.
A discussion on how the power of "The Color Purple" arises equally from Alice Walker's radical political aims and her desire to create something that is impressive in literary and aesthetic terms.
1,616 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper examines how, in literary terms, "The Color Purple" is innovative and groundbreaking and how Alice Walker's desire as a black woman to create an impressive literary and aesthetic work to challenge the established canon, could in itself be described as political. It looks at how political concerns such as racism and its treatment were equally as important to her as her literary and aesthetic aims and how the novel enables her to introduce and contrast similar issues in America and Africa making it an extremely powerful work on many levels.
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"Walker's inclusion of the African sections in the novel can be viewed as superfluous to the main story of Celie and therefore a distraction only included to forward her political aims. The African element does seem to be almost mythical, its culture and history summed up rather briefly in Nettie's letters, with occasional references to art, social practices and language which seem to be included merely as tokens or symbols of the full picture. This could be construed as weakening the main narrative, that of Celie. However, I believe that the epistolary form allows the African sense to be incorporated in a convincing way, and the refreshing contrast in language structure between the two sisters reinforces the political messages from both continents."
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Media Violence and "The Color Purple", 2007.
A look at the effect of violence through media with a focus on the depiction of family violence in the movie "The Color Purple".
1,255 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines how the movie "The Color Purple," is a prime example of the numerous facets of family violence. It discusses how the entire movie is a depiction of various levels and types of family violence together with spousal abuse, adultery, lies and deceptions. It discusses how movies continually influence one's life and how the whether the impact is positive or negative is determined by what we watch and what we perceive through viewing those movies. The paper also discusses how violence on television has continued to cause problems in common households, by giving young children ideas of how to attempt more perfect crimes, or crazy wacky stunts, abuse and neglect.
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"Javier, Herron & Primavera report on studies completed in their article that support the negative impact on behavior that television has had as well as how it continues to increase in severity. They report that the findings from the field and correlational studies provide a distinct and important perspective on the issue. According to these findings, aggressive content on television could have a paradoxical impact on the viewer depending upon his/her intrinsic characteristics. For instance, boys who watched only nonviolent television programs were generally more aggressive than those who watched violent television programs, although violent programs were more popular than the nonviolent programs. "
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Characters in "The Color Purple", 2002.
Explores the depth of the characters, Nettie and Celie in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper shall compare and contrast the characters of Celie and Nettie in Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple". This comparison shall be created through the use of the "point by point" method, where independent aspects of each character are first presented and then compared and contrasted.
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"The Color Purple", 2005.
A review of the movie "The Color Purple".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the movie "The Color Purple." It studies conflicts in the movie, focusing on the value-system of the principle culture being examined. The paper also discusses the values of other subcultures presented in the film. The paper concludes with an evaluation of society and culture at the time depictd in the flim.
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"In 'The Color Purple', the main character Celie has to contend with many social issues, including mysogyny, racism, poverty and her lesbianism. Growing up as a black woman in the South, she suffers first when she is raped by the man she believes is her father..."
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