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1、【标题】论西莉在紫色中的成长 【作者】汤 茵 【关键词】紫色；西莉；成长历程；身份寻求；觉醒 【指导老师】张亚军 谭佳 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionThe initiation novel, or the Bildungsroman in German, is a novel that“follows the development of the hero or heroine from childhood or adolescence into adulthood, through a troubled quest for identity”.1 According
2、to Mordeeai Marcus, the“growing-up novel” and the“coming-of-age novel” are considered to be synonyms of the initiation novel.2 It is a typical mode for most Bildungsromances: at the very beginning the main character is faced with frustration in whatever form, during the course of his or her growth,
3、he or she struggles to conquer the difficulties and achieves his or her goal. And finally the hero or heroine gets mature in ability, in feeling, to be an integrated person.Since the 1970s, African-American literature has taken on a new look, and a group of African-American female writers have claim
4、ed nationwide reputation. Alice Walker is one of them. She attracted attention from American literary critical world with her novel: The Color Purple, which portrays the oppressed black womens miserable life, was published in 1982. This novel won her the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Awa
5、rd, and it was nominated for the 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award.The Color Purple as the influential novel about black females growth has accepted extensive attention from home and abroad scholars. Some of them discussed cultural characteristics in this novel from female growth, love and sex
6、, family problem, friendship, race problem, and teenagers problem. As Harold Bloom said,“beginning with its epigraph, Alice Walker marks off The Color Purples territory and purpose: it is a novel that intends to teach its readers, and it is also a novel about how that instruction might take place. T
7、he Color Purples central character Celie, serves as an example of the ideal learning process. Poor, oppressed, miserable, she learns to shed the yoke of patriarchal oppression in its formsin marriage, in love, in economics, in religion”.3 The Color Purple portrays new images of black women who were
8、raped, beaten, and separated, but who fought, struggled and survived.In this novel Walker mainly chooses to depict a black woman Celies life, yet she never fails to cast her eyes on the growth of the other black females, the blackmales, even the white along with. Like other Buildungsromances The Col
9、or Purple puts weight on the theme of“change”, and change always means growth. Though it can be attained at great cost.This thesis tries to analyze the theme of Celies growth from Celies emotional maturity, belief transformation and awakening consciousness of identity. The first part describes and a
10、nalyzes how the heroine Celie fell victim to family violence and sexual discrimination, which is the obstruction of her growth. The second part discusses the various means by which Celie struggled for growth, she and her friends maintained their dreams, helped each other and then Celie began to ques
11、t for her identity. The third part delineates how Celie retrieved her rights over her bodies, marriage and beliefs, that is her declaration of growth. Trough strenuous struggles and efforts, she finally could live well without men, choose the right men and adopt her own view of men, society and reli
12、gion.II. Obstruction on Celies GrowthIn the history of slavery, black women are called black victims, they suffer most of the abuses heaped upon them: hard physical labor, poor rations, whipping, the threat of being separated from children and mate, coerced sexual relations with the master, and vind
13、ictive treatment at the hands of the mistress. In The Color Purple, Walker describes black womens physical and psychological abuse, which is not only the reason for but also the process of black womens loss of self-identity. As Barbara Christian claims,“The Color Purple is a book that emphasizes the
14、 oppression on black women by black men”.4 Celie is the victim for sexual, physical, economic oppression and she is burdened with the load form sexism than any others in The Color Purple. A. Object of Sexual AbuseAccording to Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex,“Man is the Subject while woman is the
15、Object. Man sees himself as a human being, and sees woman asthe sex”.5 In black mens eyes, black women are only the sexual objects for them to give vent to their sexual desire. They just enjoy their own happiness, and the thing left for women is pain and indifference. Moreover, this attitude and man
16、ner in marriage is descended from generation to generation, from father to son, as a black social tradition. So in black household, rape and incest frequently take place so that black women become long-time victims of black mens sexual appetite.In the novel, Celies mother suffers the most pain during her fathers sexual onslaught. When Celies mother becomes too ill and too worn-out from childbearing to satisfy her stepfath
