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This 3 page paper discusses the issues of gender, not necessarily female, in the works of Alice Walker and Virginia Woolf. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the female gender. Yet, in so much of the literature the author has not limited themselves to just a comment about women and their issues, but can also be found
to have made insightful statements about being male and what society has done in regard to shaping the male gender role. The Color Purple by Alice Walker as well as
Virginia Woolfs The New Dress, both serve as excellent examples of gender being addressed androgynously, as well as individually. The Color Purple is about one womans search for herself through
horrible circumstances which include early abuse at the hands of her stepfather, then later at the hands of her husband. Written in a series of letters by Celie, the main
character, the reader is able to enter the world of the black female. However, even as one is exploring and following the life of Celie and later of Sofia,
one realizes that the men suffer as well. One of the major themes which comes out of The Color Purple is that of the harm that the Black community inflicted
upon itself as well as the racially motivated hostility which kept them all under a constant threat of danger. However, instead of forming a united front, what Walker shows is
that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of the gender roles that were being destroyed from within
as well. This pertained to both male and female. As one can see, Celies husband, like most in his situation, understand that no matter how hard they work, they will
never be paid as much as a white man doing the same job. He sees the things that he cannot produce or obtain for his family and this fuels a
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