Heterosexuality In The Color Purple

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In the movie, “The Color Purple,” directed by Steven Spielberg, portrays the disruption of gender roles, various sexual orientation stereotypes and sexuality from various surroundings that everybody can relate to. The Color Purple uses imagery, symbols, and characters to help viewers understand the dominance of sexuality. Furthermore, there are various scenes like Celie’s abuse from her father, Celie and her husband relationship, Celie relationships with various women throughout the movie. “The Color Purple,” is important to anybody that views this movie because it demonstrates the importance of women empowerment and self-love that everybody can relate to.
The dominance of sexuality was portrayed throughout the movie with Celie and in question …show more content…

For example, many characters in the movie broke barriers of the traditional black male and female gender roles. Sofia’s aggression and strength, Shug’s sexual assertiveness, and Harpo’s insecurity throughout Sofia’s on and off relationship are major examples of disruption in between traditional gender roles and the actual traits portrayed by the character. The disruption between gender roles sometimes can also result to sexual ambiguity that was displayed in the relationship between Shug and …show more content…

Black feminism is a school of thought from African-Americans, which argues that sexism, class oppression, and racism are inextricably bound together. “The Color Purple,” illustrates the benefits of women in friendships and how powerful strong female relationships are. In addition, ability to reflect stories to one another in a friendship gives women the power to resist oppression and to become more dominant by using their voice. This movie emphasizes how women relationships together form a bond, to build a source a love in a world that is filled with the hetero

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