Use Of Motifs In Alice Walker's The Color Purple

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In the Novel The Color Purple the author uses various of motifs to establish its themes. Walker utilizes the novel's epistolary (letter-composition) structure to underscore the force of correspondence. Celie composes letters to God, and Nettie composes letters to Celie. Both sisters pick up quality from their letter composition, however they are spared just when they get reactions to their letters. Accordingly, in spite of the fact that written work letters empowers self-expression and admission, it requires a ready audience. At the point when Celie never reacts to Nettie's letters, Nettie feels lost in the fact that Celie is her only audience. Nettie becomes frustrated with her minister work on the grounds that the settlers won't hear her …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel, Celie considers god to be her audience and assistance, yet Celie does not have a reasonable comprehension of who god is. She knows where it counts that her picture of god as all powerful "don’t seem quite right"(Walker 195), yet she says it's all she has. Shug welcomes Celie to envision god as something fundamentally diverse, as an "it" that has a great time creating and simply needs individuals to love what “it” has made. In the long run, Celie quits considering god she quits thinking about the other men in her life, she "git man off her eyeball"(walker 198) and berates god, keeping in touch with, "You must be sleep"( Walker 178). Yet after Celie has pursued her patriarchal god away and concoct another idea of god, she writes in her last letter, "Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear Everything. Dear God."(Walker 291). This reconsidering of god all alone terms symbolizes Celie's turn from an object of another person's consideration to an autonomous lady. It likewise demonstrates that her voice is presently adequately enabled to have her own voice. At the point when Celie at long last breaks free of Mr.__ and patriarchal society, she turns into a person as opposed to an abused lady. Her change into a full, unrepressed lady is symbolized by pants. For the greater part of her life, Celie never wore pants in fact that she …show more content…
From the starting, Celie demonstrates that purple is her most loved color that she asks Kate to purchase her dress and shoes in purple, yet they wind up being excessively costly. At the point when Celie comes back to Georgia, subsequent to having lived with Shug in a sentimental relationship, and having begun her own particular gasp making business, Mr. desires for Celie a purple frog, symbolizing a remark Celie made to Mr. long after her association with Shug, saying that men have dependably helped her to remember frogs. Generally as Celie constantly had the inward quality important to permit her strike out all alone and to break free of Mr's. and Pa's impact, the color purple is found in nature, in blossoms particularly, yet it appears as an impossible euphoria, something that should not to be there, and a pointer of God's impact on