color purple

Celie’s character highlights the detrimental effect of silence on black women. Individuals are silenced when they are denied agency in shaping their own experiences. Agency is the concept that individuals make choices that shape their own lives and that they are solely the product of their environment. The character of Celie emphasizes the silencing of African American woman as experienced through male family members, in particularly fathers and husbands. Surprisingly enough, woman within the …

…and silence, but found her own voice. The final scene is compelling since Celie, now independent, has joined with the very person, whom from childhood, has encouraged the growth of a confident and vocal Celie. Celie has overcome obstacles in her life such as abuse, rape, and silence as an African American woman in a society that condones all blacks, especially women. The Color Purple reveals the inner strength of it’s main character, celie.