The Color Purple The Color Purple is Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, It decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south, during 1900-1940.The most of the story takes place in a village house. Celie is forced to marry a brutal man she calls...

"To thine own self be true," is a famous Shakespearean quote, and one the character Telemachos in The Odyssey had to struggle to learn to appreciate. He is first introduced to the reader as being meek and passive, feeling as if defending his family against the suitors is a hopeless effor...

The rights and status of women in the Canadian society have improved considerably in the last century. However, gender equality is still being threatened. Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of "women's roles" sometimes continue to stagnate and...

Education of the next generation forms a core, central theme in many of the greatest works of literature, particularly those of the African- American tradition where the next generation holds such promise for those oppressed by the historical weight of the present. However, in the narrati...