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A Modern Allegory of The Color Purple

2009· article· en· W1865944181 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Deyan Guo

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian social science · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRace, History, and American Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAllegoryPathosContext (archaeology)Id, ego and super-egoSociologyLesbianLiteratureAestheticsGender studiesArtPsychoanalysisHistoryPsychology

Abstract

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Alice Walker became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple. Even though it has been severely attacked by some people for its nasty language, lesbian relationship and domestic violence, The Color Purple is still hailed as a classic book in exploring the pathos of black women in social context. The strength of the book mainly derives from the regeneration of the multitude of characters with the protagonist Celie in the forefront. Facing the overwhelmingly powerful patriarchal culture, Celie unresistingly places herself under the domination and authority of men, as revealed in her way of naming men, her fear of men and of God. While later through the wholesome influence of Sofia and mothering nurturing of Shug, Celie’s sense of ego is gradually awakened. She finally enters the world of creation. In return, the arrogant Shug and Amazon-like Sofia become more compassionate and gentle. While the black women enjoy their close bond and dearly selfhood, the black men as exemplified by Mr. ____and Harpo also go through the process of reexamination of their existence. They no longer view women as objects; instead they begin to acknowledge their equal status as human beings. So at the end of the book, both black men and women discover in themselves the ability to love and to be loved and learn to embrace the selfhood, sisterhood and brotherhood. In this sense, The Color Purple can be interpreted as a modern allegory in which the characters finally reach the state of self-fulfillment and the state of perfection through pains. Key Words: Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Patriarchy, Self-Negation, Self-Realization, Transformation, Allegory Resume: Alice Walker est devenue la premiere femme noire qui a obtenu le prix Pulitzer de fiction en 1983 pour son oeuvre The Color Purple. Quoique attaqueviolemment pour sa langue vulgaire , le lesbianisme , et la violance conjugale , The Color Purple est tout de meme considere comme chef-d’oeuvre classique en raison de sa recherche sur la souffrance des femmes noires du point de vue sociologique . Le grand succes du roman reside dans la revelation de regeneration spirituelle d’une multitude des heros avec le protagoniste Celie En face d’une phallocratie puissante , Celie , n’ayant aucune conscience de s’y opposer , se laisse opprimer et dominer par l’autorite des hommes . Ce caractere se reflete pleinement dans ses appellations envers les hommes , son effroi de l’homme et de Dieu . Cependant , avec l’influence de Sophia et Shug , sa propre conscience se reveille petit a petit , enfin , elle se donnne un monde tout nouveau . En meme temps , Shug qui etait arrogante , et Sophia , qui etait amazonienne , toutes les deux sont devenues de plus en plus gentilles et temoignent plus de sympathies aux autres . Quand les femmes noires se solidarisent pour former une relation etroite dans le roman The Color Purple , les hommes noires , ayant pour protagoniste Mr. ____and Harpo , commencent a reconsiderer leurs propres vies . Ils ne pensent plus que les femmes leur appartiennent , mais au contraire , ils reconnaissent de plus en plus l’egalite entre l’homme et la femme . Donc , a la fin du roman , les hommes et les femmes noirs ont su comment s’aimer , se cherir . Une histoire allegorique classique atteint sa percfection apres l’auto-realisation , tout en traversant les difficultes et les vicissitudes . En quelque sorte, The Color Purple peut etre considere comme une histoire allegorique de version moderne. Mots-cles: Alice Walker, The Color Purple, phallocratie, auto-negation, auto-realisation, transformation , allegorie

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.051

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.007
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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