从紫色的分析中看黑人女性的自我觉醒英语专业本科毕业论文(编辑修改稿)

从紫色的分析中看黑人女性的自我觉醒英语专业本科毕业论文(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

oreign Languages, Hebei United University 4 Chapter 2 Double Oppressions Black Women Suffered Racial Oppression AfricanAmerican people had suffered racial discrimination for a long time. First, it was the selling of black people as slaves. Then, they endured slavery itself, being treated like animals. After slavery was abolished, colored people, especially colored women, still had to deal with racial discrimination, demoralization, subjugation and hatred. Black women had to face unbearable odds at obtaining selfassurance. Women were on the social status of oppression and discrimination. The black women even suffered the double oppression of racial and sexual. With the rise of feminist movement, women39。 s status was gradually promoted, and the black women smashed double shackles. In the mid1950s to the mid1960s, African Americans initiated the largescale movement of struggle against discrimination and racial oppression, striving for social situation and social right. Theoretically, the black people should have gotten their freedom at President Lincoln39。 s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but the matter still exists. In The Color Purple, which spans the years between the Depression and the beginning of the Civil Right Movement in the early 1960s, Walker expresses the racial oppression of black people, even the black women in details. Sofia is put in prison because of scolding and beating mayor’s wife on the street. Although released, she is still work as a servant in white mayor’s home. She has the same fate with Celie, oppressed by others, but Celie is a slave for black men and she is a servant for white people despite of breaking the male power in black family. In addition, the Olinka people who Nettie mentioned in letter escape to a desolated place because the white build roads in their inhabited area, threatened the existing space of the black. When the white mayor saw the black had the automobile, he bought it to her wife, because he does not want to be more backward than the black. Therefore, the black women suffer not only physical torture but also the spirit. Black women in double oppression of slavery indicate the difficulties that they encountered are multiple in the fight against social prejudices. Sexual Oppression Feminist movement in the sixties and seventies of the last century belongs to the second wave of the feminist movement. Women’s movement at this stage was characterized by the malecentered criticism and the awakening of female Chapter 2 Double Oppressions Black Women Suffered 5 consciousness. Walker created The Color Purple in the late of 1980s. Although the social situation of women has been proved after three feminist movements, the sexual discrimination still exists. When more and more women occupied the leading position of government, school and media, men called out in alarm: the hen crowed! The black women, as colored people, were deeply oppressed by men. They are timid and think that being submissive is the best way to stay alive. Black men poured their plaint on black women, treating them as life tools without respect. Black men trample on them. In The Color Purple, the oppression which the black females received es from not only the white people with racial discrimination, but also the black males。 not only the society, but also the family. The protagonist of The Color Purple is Celie. She is a fourteenyearold black girl who is raped by her stepfather when her mother is away and is warned by her father not to tell “anyone but God”. After her mother’s death, her two children are taken away by her stepfather, and she bees a slave both physically and sexually to her stepfather. After her stepfather getting tired of her, she is forced to marry a widower Albert. Albert doesn’t love Celie at all but needs a servant to cook and clean for him and take care of his three children. Celie is still physically and sexually abused by Albert, but she still keeps silent for she thinks that accepting everything silently is the best and the only way to “staying alive”. When she is beaten, she said: “he beats me like he beats the children. Cept he don’t never beat them….it all I can do not cry, I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That is how e I know trees fear man.”(Alice Walker 1982) 22 Her sister Nettie teaches her to fight with them, but Celie answers: “But I don39。 t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.” (Alice Walker 1982) 17 Celie even teaches man to beat the other woman without realizing that she is also a victim. This shows that the maleoriented perspective is deeply rooted in the black munity. Meanwhile, it can be seen that men maintain their supremacy and when their male authority is challenged and threatened, the way they use to solve problems is only violence. In the family of patriarchal domination, obedience is woman’s virtue. As a weak woman, Celie has grown to be accustomed to the slave status in silence so that she does not dare to go against her husband. Writing letters bees a way to achieve selfawareness as a black woman. Celie lives on the earth just for submissive and enslaved as a cooker, washer, worker, housekeeper and sexual tool. She is poisoned by patriarchal domination so that she thinks being submissive is natural. College of Foreign Languages, Hebei United University 6 Chapter 3 Celie’s Selfconsciousness Influence of African Culture Alice Walker pares the African, American with the AmericanAfrican to appeal black people bringing honor of their national culture and abandoning the traditional vulgar customs. Through The Color Purple, Alice Walker develops the female consciousness, stressing that women and men have equal power. This proves the symbols and significance of black in the white world. Walker thinks that black is the sym。