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CELIE - Coggle Diagram
CELIE
VIOLENCE AND FIGHTING
- celie onkly knows how to conform, she doesnt know how to fight back
- "don't know how to fight, all I know how to do is stay alive"
- page 22 - first fight motif, from Nettie, encouraging her to be strong
- "you got to fight them ... I can't do it for you
- Sofia's violence towards Harpo, subverting hegemonic gender ideals, shows Celie that you don't have to conform
- sexual/physical violence lowers Celie's self-respect
- Sofia is imprisoned for sticking up for herself
- page 83 "Miss Celie, I act like you"
- Celie gets insight that she has been conforming the only way that you can survive in prison - to act like Celie and not object
- symbolises entrapment/ all her life she has been a prisoner
- Celie doesn't use violence and doesnt ight
- the motif of fighting shows that her ability to gain agency is gradual due to oppressive patriarchal forces - mirrors feminism and womanism
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RELATIONSHIPS
- at the start, the only relationship she has is with God and stays the only consistent relationship throughout
- loses relationship with Nettie due to her thinking she was dead, but her complex emotions she feels towards the revolution that Nettie is alive, catalyse her change of character from passive to empowerment
- page 41 gains first friendship with Sofia - "I sleeps like a baby now"
- Celie's relationship with men has only been submissive and oppressive
- the relationship she gains with women gives her agency