Essays on Alice Walker

Alice Walker is one of the most well-known and influential African American Female authors of all time. Her novels are often about her experience as an African American female, and the injustices they face in their daily lives. The Color Purple takes place in Southern...

In Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’ the exploitation and oppression of black women are led by men, with the belief that women are worthless and inferior. Therefore, the supremacy of a certain social standing puts fear and deficient self-confidence into the minds of Celie and Nettie....

When the Black community was fighting for their freedom from their White masters, there were groups of women who sought to get representation as voting rights. The plight of the Black community and women in the nineteenth century was based on similar principles; both imprisoned...

Self Discovery is a way how people discover how they feel about spiritual or priorities concerning them rather than following opinion of their family, friends or society. It is how we explore our inner self by understanding our potential and purposes and the core principles...

The term ‘Context’ refers to the social, cultural and the historical events which took place. The Social context is an important aspect in a novel as it helps in reflecting an historical event and other aspects like the social environment and the socio cultural context....

Published in the year 1982, ‘The Color Purple’ written by Alice Walker which won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1983, tells the story of an African-American woman’s journey of self-discovery and the hardships and struggles she experiences throughout her life. Narrated in a style...

Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple begins with, “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy”. This quote sets forth the state of oppression Cecile is in. Celie is depicted as a submissive woman, that seems to be static in her...

“Women will always be inferior to men.” That is what has been said for hundreds of years and it’s something that is still being said in today’s society. Women have almost always had to take the backseat when it comes to their wishes, goals, needs,...

The Color Purple is an award-winning epistolary novel written by Alice Walker in 1982. The book takes place in the 1930s and mainly depicts the life of African-American women in the Southern United States, mainly Georgia. However, The Color Purple is an epistolary novel and...

‘The Flowers’ (1973), is a bildungsroman short story by Alice Walker set in the deep south of 1930s America. Exploring the loss of innocence of a 10-year-old girl Myop, and the conflict between the fantasy of a child’s mind and the reality of the world...