The Power of Women to Against Sexual Harassment in Walker's The Color Purple = The Power of Women to Against Sexual Harassment in Walker's The Color Purple

Widyatul Inayah. 2024. The Power of Women to Against Sexual Harassment in Walker’s The Color Purple. (Supervised by Abbas and A. ST. Aldilah Khaerana) The purpose of this study is to analyze sexual harassment that occurs in the novel The Color Purple. Specifically, the things that are analyzed include the types and levels of sexual harassment, as well as how the female characters to against such harassment. This research uses a structuralism approach, focusing on intrinsic elements. These intrinsic elements include character, plot, setting, and theme. The research issues addressed are the types of sexual harassment and the efforts by female characters to free themselves from it, using theories of violence to analyze these issues. The research method used is qualitative, and explained the result obtained descriptively. The results of this study indicate that the female characters experience various types and levels of harassment, as well as different efforts to overcome it. This includes physical, verbal, and psychological sexual harassment. The efforts made by the female characters to escape sexual harassment, such as Celie who eventually gained control over herself and left her husband by moving to another country with Shug Avery, learning many things and starting a business. Then Nettie went abroad after resisting Mr.___ who wanted to harass her. Nettie became a missionary and had a better life. Meanwhile, Sofia engaged in direct resistance, which even led to her being imprisoned.

Keywords: sexual harassment, Structuralism Approach, violence, novel The Color Purple