Analysis of The Color Purple from Freud's Psychoanalysis

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10.2991/iccese-17.2017.76How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Freud; Psychoanalysis; Celie; Personality; Growth

Abstract

An American writer Alice Walker's The Color Purple is an outstanding epistolary novel. It tells a story of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the South of the United States. As a victim of the society, she learns to write letters to God in which she tells God what happens in her personal life. There are many reasons contributing to Celie's growth from an oppressed black woman without soul to an independent new woman. This paper tries to interpret Celie's growth from the perspective of Freud's psychoanalysis, especially from his theory of personality.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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