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The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Overview
Strong Feminist Themes Are Controversial
While the female characters also have faults, they possess more redeeming qualities and more opportunities to sympathize with them are written into the story.
Was Walker's Characterization of Men Unfair?
Do you think the unbalanced depictions of negtive male characters is gender biased and unfair?
What do you think?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, Alice Walker hates men.
No, it was fair and accurate.
TessaGreen says:
I'm not sure I quite agree with the way you characterize the men. But something I found really remarkable was the change in Danny Glover's character, when he a) fell in love and b) fell in love with a strong-willed woman. But then he could have just been indifferent to, or irritable with Celie, if he was simply unfulfilled. Instead he was brutal and cruel.
Posted March 25, 2009
Margo_Arrowsmith says:
I don't believe that she hates men and that isn't what it was about. However, she painted a reality that existed at the time.
It was also a symbolic book, not really character driven at all and each person represented archetypes and as such would be skewed.
Posted October 06, 2008
Rokusan says:
I think the depictions of the men are probably consistent with the times. Women in the United States weren't allowed to vote until 1928, putting them at a disadvantage that was even sanctioned by the government. (As a point of interest ~ women today, in 2008, are STILL not guaranteed equal rights in the United States...)
I also think that unless they become aware and make deliberate choices to be different, people tend to live as they were raised. Celie even says as much to her father-in-law in her great speech before leaving, that if "Mister" hadn't been his (her father-in-law's) boy, he might have made someone a decent man.
Posted August 17, 2008
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About the Author
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, self-declared feminist and womanist?the latter a term she herself coined to make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Sistalove wrote...
One of of my all time favourite fims. its a crime that it did not win an oscar!!
Posted April 15, 2009
TessaGreen wrote...
Color Purple is one of my most favorite films ever. Seen it loads of times. Would happily watch it now. But I have never been able to read the book. Fab lens, this. You and this lens are totally responsible for me losing sleep tonight!
Posted March 25, 2009
poutine wrote...
I read the book first and then saw the movie. I like the movie better.
Posted December 08, 2008
Rokusan wrote...
I saw the movie many, many times before I read the book. So I'm biased toward the movie version. Still, it is one of my all-time favorites (I only own 14 movie DVDs, and this is one). I love it! I like to watch it when I'm feeling defeated by life... it brings me back.
Love this lens, too!
Posted August 17, 2008
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