A Study of Celie in The Color Purple From the Perspective of Ethical Identity
Alice Walker, a contemporary Afro-American female writer, won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.The Color Purple is her magnum opus.The novel depicts Celie' s growth from an ignorant, dependent girl to a mature, independent woman in the family and society.Based on the ethical literary criticism, this thesis aims to analyze the heroine's confused ethical identities as a daughter, wife, mother, as well as the reasons for and the process of the confirmation of her ethical identities.Only by exploring themselves, acquiring economic independence and establishing self-confidence can black women gain real liberation.
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