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Feminine Narrative in The Color Purple

2023-05-20 10:56:41

A sensible novel like Alice Walker's "purple" is developed in the ability of the reader to express sympathy and sadness in the character. Focusing on this problem, Robin Warhol, author of "The Story Gender: The Influence and Impact of Women in Alice Walker's Purple", analyzes the technique of the story that produces a "good cry" in a novel. The authors suggest that this novel effectively treats the "internal focus" and highlights the concept of the patient.

Alice Walker 's novel "Purple" has a lot of mention of purple. Especially in today's society, purple is a very unique color. This color is usually associated with lesbians and was used previously in the Phoenician Empire. This indicates that someone is a member of the royal family. From the relationship between Celie and Shug, the meaning of lesbians is an important part, especially in this novel. In the novel as a whole, purple inference is used as a literary tool to explain Celie 's originality and lesbian tendency of the hero.

For centuries, purple played an important role in Christianity during Holy Week around Easter. Purple, red, black, white, gold has a symbolic meaning as a royal family color and suffering. In the early days, considering the cost and difficulty of creating purple, its importance is not a coincidence. In addition, colors often symbolize the sufferings of Jesus Christ when crucified. Antigua's Semana Santa is considered to be the most important cultural and religious activity in Guatemala and during this holy week there is no more important city than Antigua. Antigua is probably the largest and most traditional and most famous Semana Santas in the world. Meanwhile, thousands of tourists flocked to Antigua, spectacular religious parades, Alphonbrass ("Carpet"), wonderful floats and gatherings