Physical violence is an act of a person involving contact of another person intended to cause feelings of physical pain, injury, or other physical suffering or
bodily harm. Psychological abuse which also referred to emotional abuse or mental abuse
is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma.
http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiPhysical_abuse
2.9 Hermeneutics Theory
Hermeneutics is the theory of text interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. There have been two
very different approaches to social explanation since the nineteenth century, and they differ most fundamentally over a distinction between explanation and understanding
or cause and meaning von Wright 1971. This distinction divides over two ways of understanding a why question when it comes to social events. Why did it happen?
may mean : what caused it to happen? or it may mean : why did the agents act in such a way to bring it about?.
The hermeneutic approach holds that the most basic fact of social life is the meaning of an action. Social life is constituted by social actions, and actions are
meaningful to the actors and to the other social participants. Moreover, subsequent actions are oriented towards the meanings of prior actions; so understanding the later
action requires that we have an interpretation of the meanings that various participants assign to their own actions and those of others. So the social sciences or
the human sciences need to be hermeneutic. researchers need to devote their attention to the interpretation of the meanings of social actions.
CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Design
Burns and Grove 2003:195 define a research design as “a blueprint for conducting a study with maximum control over factors that may interfere with the
validity of the findings”. Parahoo 1997:142 describes a research design as “a plan that describes how, when and where data are to be collected and analyzed”. Polit et al
2001:167 define a research design as “the researcher’s overall for answering the research question or testing the research hypothesis”.
There are several types of research design, They are: Qualitative, Quantitative, CorrelationRegression Analysis, Quasi-Experimental, Experimental,
and Meta-Analysis. But in this thesis the main source of the analysis especially the data is taken from the novel The Color Purple written by Alice Walker. According
to the objective of the analysis, the method that the writer used in this analysis is Qualitative Method.
Qualitative Method is type of research methods involves describing in details specific situation using research tools like interviews, surveys, and observations.
Burns and Grove 2003:19 describe a qualitative approach as “a systematic subjective approach used to describe life experiences and situations to give them
meaning”. Parahoo 1997:59 states that qualitative research focuses on the experiences of people as well as stressing uniqueness of the individual. Holloway
and Wheeler 2002:30 refer to qualitative research as “a form of social enquiry that focuses on the way people interpret and make sense of their experience and the world
in which they live”. Researchers use the qualitative approach to explore the behavior, perspectives, experiences and feelings of people and emphasize the understanding of
these elements.
3.2 Data Collection
