Symbolic Significance of Colors in the Novel The Color Purple

Symbolic Significance of Colors in the Novel The

Color Purple

王卓珏

【期刊名称】《科技信息（学术版）》

【年(卷),期】2007(000)026

【摘要】This paper mainly explains the symbolic significance of colors in the novel The Color Purple by using theory of Alice Walker's Womaism. Black,in The Color Purple stands for humbleness,blue for a life of impulse,red for liberty and hope ,purple for women's consummate happiness. And the choice of "purple" as its title ,conceives a purple centered symbolic color system,which reveals the black women's expectation for living an ideal happy life. Walker gives an expression of black women's political condition ,state of life under the racial and sexual oppression. Her intentions are to arouse women's consciousness of self and to call on them to be self-respected ,self-supported and eventually be self-liberated.

【总页数】4页(44-47)

【关键词】The Color Purple;color;symbolic;black women;womanism 【作者】王卓珏

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【正文语种】中文

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