| Summary: | Alice Walker�s The Color Purple is a novel about Cellie, an African-American
girl who experiences domestic violence in her family of orientation and family of
procreation, in the early twentieth century. This research has two objectives. They are to
investigate the impacts of the domestic violence on Cellie�s character and to compare
and contrast Cellie�s experience to the real condition of African-American women who
underwent similar experience of domestic violence in the early of twentieth century.
This graduating paper makes use of M. H. Abrams� mimetic approach which compares
and contrasts the findings found from close reading of the novel with the related fact
and information of domestic violence in African-American society in the early
twentieth century. The result shows that domestic violence influences Cellie�s life. She
experiences teenage pregnancy, stress and amenorrhea. The domestic violence also
influences Cellie�s idea to survive, low self esteem, and her choice in private
relationship. Similar domestic violence was experienced by the African-American
women living in the southern part of United States of America in the early twentieth
century. The impacts of domestic violence that they experienced were similar with
Cellie�s, even though their reactions toward the domestic violence were different. This
appears that literary work is the mirror of the society which reflects reality, but not
totally identical.
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