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Alice Walker presents the female network as a key theme in the novel ‘The Color Purple'. Discuss

‘The Color Purple is a novel which deals with what it means to be poor, black and female in the rural South during the first half of the twentieth century#,' a period defined by the patriarchal society in which women were uneducated and kept oppressed by the male dominated society. Walker uses the female network to teach the reader that through unity, strength and support of other women the female characters are able to rise, stand up to the men that keep them oppressed and begin to live.
The character of Celie is central to the female network; through Celie Walker has aimed to present a process of emancipation of a woman, body and soul, from the domination of men.
The novel is written in the form of letters ‘In using the epistolary style Walker is able to have her major character Celie express the impact of oppression on her spirit as well as her growing internal......

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