The Color Purple: Directed by Steven Spielberg Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, The Color Purple, is an epic tale of a woman’s struggle to find equality, stability and freedom in a male dominated existence. Many of the issues which are written about in the novel were viewed or experienced by the author. As a black woman born in Eatonton, Georgia and raised in the South, Walker gained insight into the injustices inflicted upon not only …showed first 75 words of 464 total…

…showed last 75 words of 464 total…to find her identity. To a certain extent, Celie’s struggle to find herself can be seen as representative of the struggle of women to define their own experience through the development of self knowledge and awareness. Similar to views and opinions of recent times, Celie depicts a woman that has been placed in the background of a male dominated world. Suppression is maintained over inferior parties by various techniques, as expressed in the film.