Barbarity Of Humanity In The Colour Purple Essay

Alice Walker in her Novel, ‘The colour Purple’ uncovers the barbarity of human being which is being raised in the form of dreadful cruelty and the bloodthirsty nature of human beast. The phrase ‘human beast’ has been used in the title of the paper to emphasize the rise of barbarism of human being. The Novelist Portrays the picture of oppressed as well asoppressors through her novel. Celie, the protagonist of the novel, is a subaltern and is squeezed her whole life by male dominated world. They remain blood sucker in the form of human leech in her life. The protagonist of the novel is anarrator. She is anuneducated and fourteen year black girl who lives in the south. She has to suffer a lot because of her ownfather, Alphonso,who sexually exploits her. Alphonso beats her as well as rapes her frequently. He has already impregnated his daughter once. As a victim, Celie gives a birth to a baby girl whom Alphonso kills in the jungle and her second child as ababy son,

Here, readers are shocked when s/he will come across the striking purposes and functions of vulgarity and violence while reading the novel. The novelist hammers the burning issues of the uncivilized societies of every age and borderless world. She rightly uses the title for novel which signifies the themes such as race, power politics, women’s oppression, sexual violence, sensuality, treachery, greed for money, greed for momentary happiness and tyranny. At the end of the novel, the significance of the title, ‘The Color Purple’, is revealed during the conversation between Shug and Celie. Shug (Mister) says,

“Listen, God love everything you love—and a mess of stuff you don’t. But more than anything else, God love admiration….Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”