Womens Identities in The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Behind a Mas

Womens Identities in The glossiness lofty by Alice perambulator and arse a Mask by Louisa May Alcott Alice Walkers novel The Color Purple has a rich array of distaff characters to examine when respond the above question. I feel that Louisa May Alcotts short degree, Behind A Mask offers an equally rich array of female characters to consider. by dint of the course of this essay I will show how Walker and Alcott utilize different narrative techniques and made different exercising of language and dialogue to create their characters and how they each respectively created very powerful pieces of work, identifying with their characters and the problems and obstacles faced by them in their everyday lives.The Color Purple is written in the informal style where the primary(prenominal) character writes letter to God. These letters are the like a diary where Celie tells her story. This diary technique contains Celies innermost thoughts and allows the commentator to know the true Ce lie because she is able to completely open up in her writing. Walker writers the whole story thought Celies (female) perspective, which is particularly efficacious when we are given Celies impression main female characters in the novel, Sophia and Shug. We get a different view of Nettie because she writes her own letters to Celie. sealed key events in Celies life made her the character she is, for mannikin her continual rape by her stepfather the subsequent pregnancies and the loss of her children the death of her set about and the loss of her sister, Nettie. However, through the course of the novel, Celie finds that she has managed to form close relations with the female characters of the novel, she finds love and friendship and is finally reunited with her sister and children who were taken from her.The Color Purple opens, with Celie writing to God, describing herself as a good girl (the fact that she addresses her letters to God emphasises this) and how her stepfathers advance s to her mother were rejected, resulting in Celies rape. Before chapter unrivaled even begins we here a pre-echo of Celies stepfather, You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy. So Celie learns to make quiet to survive and this is a habit that is hard for her to break.Celie is a nonoperational character. She is hardworking and domesticated and this is what allows her to be married off so young. Celies father and husba... ...r true feelings but whilst Celie feels sadness and a desire for love, dungaree Muir feels bitter and a need for revenge. The most marked difference surrounded by Celie and Jean Muir is how they use their sexuality (Shug is much more aware of how to use her sexuality effectively than Celie is). Jean Muir uses her sexuality to manipulate the three main male characters of the story, particularly Sir John Coventry who is totally taken in by her act. She wants a title and uses her femininity, flattering the elderly gentleman. Sir John is stu nned at such a lovely young woman be interested in him, for although Jean Muir is not described as pretty, her black air provokes interest.Behind a Mask is a short story compared to The Color Purple and this results in the pace being faster. The two stories pay off nothing in common but their main female characters do share some characteristics, particularly in the way they have intimate to hide behind the faade of how acceptable women in society should be. B I B L I O G R A P H Y Approaching writings Literature and Gender (1996) Goodman L (ed), The Open University The Color Purple B (1992) Walker Alice, The Womens Press