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This is a 5 page paper discussing how the ideologies of Alice Walker and Jane Austen are represented in their novels. Women novelists Alice Walker and Jane Austen provide different examples of how they have managed to represent their own ideologies within their novels. Alice Walker wrote “The Color Purple” in 1982 and conveyed her ideologies of equal and civil rights through the first person narration of the central character of Celie who is a poor, black woman living under the oppression of society and the men in her life. Her character slowly develops a sense of independence that Walker wishes upon her black female readers. In the 19th century, Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” also included Austen’s feminist ideologies in regards to many of the unreasonable and unequal aspects in society in the treatment of women. Because Austen was writing at a time when women were expected to only write sentimental novels however, Austen reveals her ideologies through the minor characters in the book, such as Mrs. Bennet, who through a satirical twist find society’s conventions unreasonable while her central characters are considered conventional and therefore accepted.
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within their novels. Alice Walker wrote "The Color Purple" in 1982 and conveyed her ideologies of equal and civil rights through the first person narration of the central character of
Celie who is a poor, black woman living under the oppression of society and the men in her life. Her character slowly develops a sense of independence that Walker wishes
upon her black female readers. In the 19th century, Jane Austens novel "Pride and Prejudice" also included Austens feminist ideologies in regards to many of the unreasonable and unequal aspects
in society in the treatment of women. Because Austen was writing at a time when women were expected to only write sentimental novels however, Austen reveals her ideologies through the
minor characters in the book, such as Mrs. Bennet, who through a satirical twist find societys conventions unreasonable while her central characters are considered conventional and therefore accepted.
Author Alice Walker, who became the first black woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel "The Color Purple", has been a
spokesperson and activist for peace, justice, equal rights and the promotion of her "womanist" ideology for over four decades. Walker herself was born in Georgia with mixed descent of American
slaves and share-croppers and Cherokee Indian. During her time in university and her early years as a struggling writer, in which her "personal story twisted and turned through many stages
of growth as a woman and a writer", Walkers "struggles and victories found their way into her books, inspiring, uplifting and motivating women and men around the world" (Omega). Alice
Walkers novel "The Color Purple" written in 1982 reflects many of Walkers own ideologies through the story and narration of the central character, Celie. Through Celie, readers are able to
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