Women are not treated well in "The Color Purple". Is their treatment a gender or an ethnic identity issue or both?
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ResponderEliminarHello! Good afternoon. I think both, because if we focus on how the Olinkas treated the women we can see that because of being a woman was already disadvantage with respect to men, and with respect to the distinction made by colors white women are they believed more than black women
ResponderEliminarI think both because from the beginning you can see how much they discredit women, you can see the abuse that was on the part of the men with their daughters, wives and nobody did anything. And I agree with lulu saying that there was discrimination by ethnicity because women of color were "inferior" to white. And that was noticeable in that black women were used as employees
ResponderEliminarUndoubtedly both are present in the novel. Since it tells the difficult situation that the black women lived in the society of the South of the United States at that time, that was a fertilized ground so that the masculine behaviors of the men and the racism prospered, being very violent the bad ones, and the good ones they knew no other way of acting that was not according to the society of the time, in which the woman counted for nothing. And as my colleagues say throughout history they are showing sexual abuse, violence, ethnic identity, gender identity and many more things that suffer from several of the characters in the novel. (Keren)
ResponderEliminarHi.. They were abused by gender, because they realized domestics job where they suffered sexual abuse and psychological abuse.
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ResponderEliminarI agree with my classmates, I also think that both because it is evident from the beginning of the novel that women are descriminated even from their fathers and to be a black women was even worst in the novel, to be a black women means to be nothing for white people.
ResponderEliminarI agree with my classmates. Women were treated well for gender discrimination and ethnic identity in The Color Purple because it shows how the father abused his daughters. Then he change them for anything as if they were an object or animal. Then the husband did not treat them well either. Also they were badly treated by white's people and they made them their slaves. There is much suffering in this novel.
ResponderEliminarHi, certainly women are not well treated in this novel. I think they are discriminated in both terms, the men treat women as unimportant objects and there is also much racism by white's people.
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ResponderEliminarDefinitely both, The woman in those times, She was submitted to her father or her husband and had no rights. Women were not as educated as men, because of their customs, their morals, their particular form of subordination to men and, on the other hand, working in domestic tasks
Also, arranged marriages were very common. Examine the effect of two "arranged" marriages — Celie's to Albert, and Albert's to Annie Julia — and the consequences of each of them.
EliminarI think that it is awful that these people have to get marry with someone that they don't know and that they don't love. I think that is the reason why it failed
EliminarI believe that with the fact that they were arranged marriages where there were no feelings of by the means led them to failure. They married without knowing each other and sharing nothing of their lives, just to get something in return or for interest
EliminarHi, I think both, because women are mistreated by men but there is also rejection of white people towards them
ResponderEliminarWhat about injustice? Sofia is unjustly imprisoned. How is this related to the major theme of injustice, which touches all of the main characters in the novel?
ResponderEliminarI think this has a lot to do with the first question, because it is discrimination to Sofia, this because of the level of superiority that men had and the sofia out of color also had a lot to do with the reaction that there was and for which she was imprisoned.
ResponderEliminarThe women of history were mistreated for being female, men considered themselves superior than us because they were the ones who worked, when women didn't do the men's commands they were beaten and insulted for that.
ResponderEliminarTeacher I would like to say that I did not like the novel at all, I did not like the way the novel was written, it did not inspire me to want to follow the next page. It seems repulsive to me the level of superiority and power that men had over women. And I think the subject that is most noticeable is landiscrimination, for example celie in my opinion had a depressing life, for example when Dad says "you must do what your mother does not do" in another case we have Sofia also suffered discrimination for the fact of being woman and black.
ResponderEliminarYeah, I felt the same when I was reading the novel, but this is part of the history, the black people were treated like Celie or even worse. That's why we need to learn about this novel to not repeat that kinds of injustices again
EliminarSkin color was also a problem for some, I think in those years whites believed that they had to serve only by their ethnic identity.
ResponderEliminarClearly the characters in the novel suffer a lot of injustice, Sofia was sure and strong woman and her determined nature makes people annoy, which brings many problems. was the case where she refused to work for whites people and this was an offense to them and she was unjustly imprisoned for years
ResponderEliminarHello guys, teacher with respect to the first question I think it is for both because they were mistreated just because they were dark skin and on the other hand because they took advantage of that came from an ethnic place and had them as slaves.
ResponderEliminarinjustice is one of the main themes of this novel, although it is true that Sofia is imprisoned for defending herself against the offenses of white people, if not for her skin color, this implies to Celi to which justice is not done by everything suffered from her children by her father and husband
ResponderEliminarDefinitely in the purple color, there are many injustices. for example when celie gave birth to her two children. they were ravished from their side by the celie's father, having this as a consequence that they grew separated from celie only by the evil of her father. another injustice was when they stopped Sopia and then the white's people made her in their slave.
ResponderEliminarAs my classmates said, this novel is full of injustice, in the case of Sofia, she was unjustly imprisoned because she was a black woman trying to defend herself
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ResponderEliminarHi, according to my colleagues, sofia was unjustly imprisoned just to defend herself, just because they are white, that is a racism and a discrimination what they do with her p
ResponderEliminarThere is injustice throughout the novel, because that was celie's life, she was forced, mistreated, she had no power of her own life. And the fact that Sofia was black and did not accept to work as such in a white house was imprisoned
ResponderEliminarI think that in the whole novel is present injustice, because Celie was abused when she was only a child for her father, also took her children and forced her to get married. In Sofia's case she was beaten, imprisoned and forced to work in a house, for the sole purpose of defending herself from the mayor's wife, who, because she was a white woman and also had power, believed herself more than other people
ResponderEliminarI think there is a lot of injutice in the novel, which it was normal in that time, the women were usually mistreated and they were looked like criminals when they had a problem with white people.
ResponderEliminarUndoubtedly in this novel is seen and lives much injustice with several of its protagonists, including more than everything to its protagonist celie, who had to go through so many bad and unfair things. As for Sophia she was a totally different woman from Celie, she was a woman who did not want to be like the other women, mistreated and without rights, so that authority was imposed, and as my friend Denireth says that character brought her many problems. She refused to be the maid of a white woman and was violent with the people who forced her to obey, and so she went to jail. And it is more than everything because then the whites believed that because they were black they had no right to anything and they only lived to serve. And I think this was an act of racism and injustice.
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I think that there are both, genre discrimination and ethnic discrimination but in the novel the main issue is the first one, women are treated like animals that the only think that they can do is make children and clean the house, the black women were slaves of her husbands o man authority in the place
ResponderEliminarIn the novel you can see both kinds of woman, like Celie who was a kind person but it had a weak personality and Sofia who was a strong woman in all aspects, and the way how the both women become the oposite that they were at the beginning of the novel
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