OPRESI PADA KARAKTER PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL ALICE WALKER THE COLOR PURPLE = FEMALE CHARACTER'S OPPRESSION IN ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE

ST. MUSLIHAH AMIR. “Female Character’s Oppression in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” supervised by Herawaty Abbas and Abbas. This thesis aims to identify the existence of oppression in one of the characters in the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The aims of this research are as follows: 1) to describe the suffering of African-American women through the character Celie, and 2) to analyze feminist issues among African-American women in the American environment. In analyzing the novel The Color Purple. The object and data source in this research is the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The results of this research show how women actively resist physical violence. The actions of certain female characters who are finally free from their problems become an explanation for the resistance they put up. In the novel The Color Purple, Celie, the main character experiences oppression. She experiences physical and nonverbal abuse from some of the male characters closest to her in the novel. Furthermore, because of the oppression she faced, Celie, who lived during the Great Depression era in a patriarchal environment, encouraged her to remain silent until she finally had the courage to fight back and defend herself with the help of other female characters in the novel.

Keywords: The Color Purple, Oppression, Female, Suffering