share every single feeling in her heart and every single moment happened in her life. And this point is important, Celie is not complaining to God. She simply needs to
talk to someone, someone whom she loves and trusts and someone who she feels loves her. Celies instinct for survival, however, is more solid than even Celie
realizes.
4.1.1 Celies Sexual Abuse
Celie is a sexual abuse child. She was victimized and raped by the man who she believed was her father in her fourteen years old when her sick mother went to
see the doctor. Celies Pa tries to find a substitute in Celie, when her mother doesnt
respond to his sexual advances. Consequently when she is at fourteen year old, She is
raped by her Pa repeatedly.
He never had a kine word to say to me. Just say you gonna do what your mammy wouldn.t The Color Purple, 1992 P. 3
Soon after, Celie‘s mother dies and Fonso rapes Celie more and more often. Her father impregnates her twice and takes away the children after they are born
allowing her to believe that he killed them, and sells them in town. . He took it The Baby. He took it while I was sleeping. Kilt it out
there in the woods. Kill this one too, if he can. The color purple, 1982 p. 4
What Celies stepfather has done to her, it is also done by Mr._____, her husband. to get rid of Celie, Fonso marries her to a man described as Mr. _____.
Celie is not permitted to mention the name of her husband. as an Afro-American woman with patriarchal system, mentioning the name of the husband is supposed to
be taboo. to show some kind of respect, she shortens the name as Mr. for her
husband.
The word Mr. culturally refers to higher position given to a man. It implies gap sense between position of Mr. contra Mrs. The word Mrs. refers to lower
sense which organizes domestic matter. home service is womans affair while outside of home is the world of Mr. or man. Such a contrast comes to exist because of
patriarchal dominance. Man has been culturally treated as stronger creature compared to a woman. if the Mr. is strong and rational enough, the Mrs. is in
contrast, weak and emotional. to say simply, woman is dependent on man.
Celies narration of her moments of marital sexual involvement with Albert in which the conjugal act assumes the form of rape.
Mr. __come git me to take care of his rotten children. He never ast me nothing bout myself. He clam on top of me and fuck and fuck,
even when my head bandaged. Nobody ever love me. I say. The Color Purple, 1992, p.103
The quotation above show us that Albert just take the advantage of Celies body like her step father did. He do it with Celie without love. He never thinks about
Celies condition. He never cares of her. He do it just to satisfy his sexual appetite. He do it again and again and never care whether Celie likes it or not or she wants it
or not.
4.1.2 Celies Physical Abuse
