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This also can be seen when Celie holds on to a picture of Shug because she is so gorgeous. These are principles seen in our society as a whole. Women holding onto pictures of women in magazines and posters lead to the suggestion that the airbrushed picture is realistic and that is what the women of the world need to look like. The predecessor of this is visualized when this is what the men look at in their magazines.
The view that men have of women is one of this sexual being waiting to be had. Celie holding onto this picture is the same as a woman today buying a magazine that appeals to her in
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The last form of violence is the emotional kind.
Reproduction is the second factor that is a touchy concept in today’s world as well as in the novel. The reason for beating in this is because Celie is the wife. This is a scene where there is violence against women. This is probably why she lies there and takes sex; it is what a man can have when he wants it. The Color Purple has a breathtaking plot that follows a women’s delimas and choices through a life that is doomed from her youth, to have a portrayal of survival by going with the flow.
This goes along with the modern world where women are raped by someone they know. Why? Because more danger is asserted and then more beatings follow. The social norms are skewed in favor towards men when it comes to violence because we are told it is okay for boys to hit, and women turn the other cheek.
The same way Celie is a barefoot and pregnant housewife living her dream of a singer that is striking. This is republican motherhood all over again. “I tried to work on some new pants I’m trying to make for pregnant women, but the thought of anybody gitting pregnant make me want to cry” is a choice that shows how women in the novel perceive their lives as mothers. Alice Walker’s portrayal of a women is not far from the reality of the modern world.
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