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GCSE: Alice Walker

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61 GCSE Alice Walker essays

The Colour Purple - letter to Celie
- Essay length: 500 words
- Submitted: 12/06/2012
In what way does Walker present the developments of the character Celie in the novel, and what are the influences which cause her to change?.
- Essay length: 1317 words
- Submitted: 12/06/2012
Examine The Ways In Which Alice Walker Uses Language To Reflect Celies Growing Maturity And Confidence.
- Essay length: 856 words
- Submitted: 03/01/2011
Essay on The Colour Purple
- Essay length: 1148 words
- Submitted: 29/06/2007
I am going to use the film 'The Colour Purple' to look at the way Steven Spielberg uses media techniques to look at the injustices faced by black people in South America in the 1930's.
- Essay length: 1758 words
- Submitted: 02/03/2007
The Color Purple is too concerned with the personal experiences of Celie to be a successful political novel
- Essay length: 4489 words
- Submitted: 17/10/2006
GCSE DRAMA COURSEWORK
- Essay length: 862 words
- Submitted: 17/10/2006
Discuss how Walker and Atwood present the self awakening of key characters within the Colour Purple and Margaret Atwood poems.
- Essay length: 3104 words
- Submitted: 11/05/2006
How does the author use descriptive language to show how Myop changes throughout the story? After reading the story 'The flowers' by Alice Walker I observed that Myop, the main character in the story, slowly matures throughout
- Essay length: 679 words
- Submitted: 24/04/2006
The impact of 'The Color Purple' is emotional rather than intellectual and this exemplifies the fact that for the society presented in the novel intellectual pursuit is futile
- Essay length: 2980 words
- Submitted: 31/03/2006

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Each writer believes that language empowers women. How successfully is this shown in the play and novel? Evaluate and investigate the ways in which each author achieves this and explore how satisfactory the end is to each text.

"Timberlake Wertenbaker creates a problem with what exactly the convicts have achieved by the end of the play. On one hand, the convicts eventually achieve their own sense of self, and become valuable members of the Australian colony, but this suggestion is ominous and it may be safer to say that the convicts merely accepted a dominant discourse of speech, which developed their articulacy and temporarily empowered themselves. However I find the ending satisfactory to the text, due to the sentimental justification of theatre as a means of empowering people. Both Alice Walker and Timberlake Wertenbaker use the power of language to empower the women in the texts. Walker and Wertenbaker both argue that the empowerment of women is possible through the establishment of ones own voice and that sustaining this language is vital in obtaining a sense of self. Both the authors successfully show that language empowers women, by highlighting the progression of their empowerment, as they are influenced to develop their language. Through this progressive structure of the novel and play, a satisfactory end is deduced, which brings about a sense that the women have established their own language, which in turn leads to their empowerment. Hollie Grantham. Page 1"

Compare how each writer presents Black women's struggles in 'The Color Purple' and 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'.

"Neither the women characters nor the authors comment on the outrageous acts carried out by the black men. To a certain extent they accept and understand this oppression because of the culture and the time they grew up in. This adds to the struggle, as the oppression has become a way of life from which there is no escape. In both novels the female characters struggle to survive and find some respect comes through. These women don't blame the black men as they are united with them against the whites and their unreasonable attitudes. This is evident in both novels. In my opinion Walker is more successful in presenting the problems as she showed us how black women relied on God and each other as well as believing in themselves to face these problems."

Compare and Contrast two extracts from the novel The Color Purple

"In conclusion, the two extracts represent different stages within the emotion and spiritual development of the protagonist, Celie. From a young naïve southern black girl she matures to independent, emotionally fluent woman capable of functioning freely within a male dominated society. In doing show, Alice Walker provides the reader with a stark image concerning the hostility and dominance of the male society over women during the time. 1 First extract - 'Dear God, I am fourteen years old ... But too sick to last' 2 Second extract - ' Dear Nettie, Well you know ... Amen, say Shug. Amen, amen' 3 Towards the end of the novel after the second extract Albert's views on women do change."

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GCSE: Alice Walker

61 GCSE Alice Walker essays

The Colour Purple - letter to Celie

In what way does Walker present the developments of the character Celie in the novel, and what are the influences which cause her to change?.

Examine The Ways In Which Alice Walker Uses Language To Reflect Celies Growing Maturity And Confidence.

Essay on The Colour Purple

I am going to use the film 'The Colour Purple' to look at the way Steven Spielberg uses media techniques to look at the injustices faced by black people in South America in the 1930's.

The Color Purple is too concerned with the personal experiences of Celie to be a successful political novel

GCSE DRAMA COURSEWORK

Discuss how Walker and Atwood present the self awakening of key characters within the Colour Purple and Margaret Atwood poems.

How does the author use descriptive language to show how Myop changes throughout the story? After reading the story 'The flowers' by Alice Walker I observed that Myop, the main character in the story, slowly matures throughout

The impact of 'The Color Purple' is emotional rather than intellectual and this exemplifies the fact that for the society presented in the novel intellectual pursuit is futile

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