You had better never tell nobody hardly God. Itd kill your mammy (3). This threatening first judgment of conviction in the novel The Color Purple is a domination and a paternal injunction of silence (Abbandonato: 11). The story is told at bottom the context of this sentence. Celie, the protagonist in the novel is silenced when she is denied government agency in shaping her own life experiences. The silencing in its unalike forms begins, when Celie is raped and impregnated at the age of fourteen. Her silencing is overly due to her addiction on patriarchal support, deprivation of education, has her self- esteem diminished and all form of love that she has or receives wiped out. The rape and other forms of silencing, also encountered by other women in the novel, make them embrace subjectivity and the patriarchal rule. The main egg-producing(prenominal) characters, Sofia, Celie and Shug Avery, strategically use love, their knowledgeableity, femininity, whereby female friendship represses their oppression, language, education, Shugs singing talent and a visible escape to rebel against patriarchal power to break the silence.
Rape is a form of abuse that has conquered Celies needs and desires under the authority of her father, Alphonso. He psychologically trains her mind and uses threats to accept conformation and silence. By impregnating and raping her at fourteen, she feels isolated and violated. At such a young age she is still confused by sexual activity which she has never been educated about and is also interdict to tell anyone about the sexual assaults.
First he consecrate his thing up against my hip and sort of wiggle it around...Then he push his thing inside my pussy… When that hurt, I cry. He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and git used to it. But I dont never git used to it (3).
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