Internal conflicts:
The most profound conflicts of this novel are the internal conflicts
that reside within Celie. Firstly I believe she struggles with her belief regarding
whether God exist or not. Throughout the novel Celie has endured abuse, rape
and assault both from her father and her husband and her only consolation was
to write letters to God, praying for help. However she starts to doubt her
faith in God hence if God really existed and loved her he would have helped
her.
Dear Nettie,
I don’t write to God no more,
I write to you. /… / What God do for me? I ast /… / Yeah, I say, and he give me a lynched
daddy, a crazy mama, a lowdown dog of a step pa and a sister I probably won’t
ever see again.
(The Color Purple, p.173)
Secondly, throughout the novel Celie had a problem coming to terms with
her sexuality. She did not understand the feelings she felt towards Shug and
she did not think she was entitled to have those kinds of feelings towards a
person of the same sex.
External conflicts:
One of the most prominent and, in my opinion, most important external conflicts
is the role of men and women in the novel. To the men, women are someone who is
not allowed to have an opinion and they are for no good but to serve them, to
cook for them, wash their clothes and raise their children. They see women as
nothing more than well, just women. Also the men see themselves as the head of
the house, the dominant person whose obligation is to make their wife obey his
rules and if not, beating her is the solution.
There is a way that the men
speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to
issue instructions. They don’t even look at women when women are speaking. They
look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground. The women also do
not look in a man’s face’ as they say. To ‘look in a man’s face’ is a brazen
thing to do. They look instead at his feet or his knees.
(The Color Purple, p.146)
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