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The Oppression Of Women In The Color Purple By Alice Walker

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in The Color Purple, a period drama, based on a book with the same title by Alice Walker, women are categorised by the society they live in. Spielberg is able to convey Celie’s vulnerability though the use of camera angles. Whenever Celie talks to her father or her husband the angle either shows the men standing over her or her looking up at the men. This shows that the men have control over Celie. ‘one day my daddy come and say to me “We gonna’ do what your mumma wouldn’t,” now I got two children by my daddy’. In The Handmaid’s Tale, women are categorised by the colour of their clothes, but in The Color Purple, people are categorised by the colour of their skin, and their gender. Celie has no rights as a woman of colour and even fewer at the

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