第一篇:《紫色》觀后感
周末的佳片有約里一部《紫色》打動了我,如果你不懂什么叫剝奪,你可以去看本片,如果你不懂什么叫大地,你也可以來看本片。電影的立腳點放在了美國的黑人社會,一個沒接收過文化教育的女人,一個被親人摧殘的女人,一個被剝奪了所有精神思想的女人,歷經了三十年后,終于覺醒反抗。事實上這個過程應該是歷經了千年。紫色里包含著紅色的張揚還有藍色的深沉,紫色象征著自由,走向自由的路真的很不平坦。
印象最深的一個畫面;
西麗一家人圍坐在一張桌子上吃飯,夏格告訴西麗的丈夫:西麗要和我們一起走了。
西麗的丈夫說:除非我死了。現在是什么問題?
一直低著頭沉默的西麗這時一字一句地說:你是個骯臟的、低級的狗東西。這就是問題所在。我該離開你了,進入我高貴的人生。
丈夫使出了他的殺手锏:你將什么也得不到。
西麗:我從你這里要過東西嗎?我從沒向你要過任何東西。聽到這里先生眼神游移,這么多年里從來是索取,奴役著西麗,從沒把她當人睜眼看過,這樣一個從來一聲不吭的女人突然發作,他還沒一點心理準備,心里有種控制不住局面的恐慌。夏格會唱歌,她有才能,她有膽量和任何人交談,她站在那里都會吸引大家的目光。你有什么?你又老又丑、體型又難看,你不敢和任何人說話,你只適合做夏格的傭人,你或許幫她燒個菜還可以,你燒的菜又沒好到可以做廚師。這時先生的爸爸說:她的確做的菜比你的第一個老婆好吃。先生馬上接著說:如果不是我的太太死了,誰會瘋了去娶你?你會干什么呢?去務農?或許有人會雇你到鐵路公司做事。說到這里他肆無忌憚地嘲笑著,他的爸爸也跟著嘲笑到:或許到煤礦去有人會用她。所有把老婆看扁的男人都有這個架勢,你不過是塊爛泥巴扶都扶不上墻還有啥能力反抗?勉強在這里給我做個飯,伺候伺候我,我不嫌棄你就不錯了。氣憤的西麗說起那些信件時憤怒地一把抓起餐刀指向先生,被眾人勸解后,丈夫朝出去的西麗喊到:你是個黑人,你窮、你又老又丑,還是個女人,你一無是處,蒼白無力的丈夫最后沖到門口喊到:真應該把你鎖在房子里工作,西麗鎮靜地說:那個房子就是個監獄,你留著自己住吧。臨別時,西麗向著曾經的丈夫發出了心中的吶喊:我很丑、我窮、可是我就在這里。
我一直在幻想西麗應該用更刻薄的語言直擊那個男人的心臟,可是我鼓足了渾身的力量等到的是西麗一句:我就在這里。這難道是西麗向舊制度發出的吶喊嗎?善良的西麗,被壓迫的西麗,即使是反抗也沒有惡毒的語言,僅僅一句我就在這里,幾十年所受的苦,不和你清算了,我什么也沒向你要過,你剝奪了我所有的勞動,你沒把我當人看待,沒尊敬過我,你享受著我的勞動,說實在的你有什么資格向我索取?就這樣西麗揮揮手告別了過去走向了新的生活,沒有抱怨只有對未來的勇氣。西麗連爭吵的機會都沒留給那個男人。
“我就在這里。”我反復想這句話,一個人做為一個有人格的人,立于天地之間,她是個生命,她為你付出過勞動,理應得到任何人的尊重。“我就在這里”一個人的形象越來越高大起來,過去你太藐視她了,你應該為過去的藐視付出代價。我是一個人,應該有我的權力,我的愛也應該得到尊重,你把我至親的妹妹攆走,你隱藏了妹妹這么多年來給我的來信。我是你的妻子,可是在你眼里只是個奴隸。“我就在這里”今天我離開你,作為一個人開始新的生活。我想這句簡單的話比任何激烈的語言更有震撼力,余音渺渺,因為簡單可以讓你永久地思索這句話的內涵。吵架有用嗎?此刻西麗無需一場贏的吵架來證明什么,她只需擺脫丈夫,沒興趣和你討過去的債,因為你很無賴,與其糾纏不清不如痛快地離開你,我根本沒想要你什么財物。什么也不會給西麗的丈夫此刻是如此蒼白無力,除了用什么也不給你來威脅西麗還有什么?
幾百年來,男人奴役女人,唯恐她們反抗,剝奪她們學習的權力,讓她們愚昧無知,這樣可以輕易地把她們踐踏在腳下,其實他們手中的牌無非就是財產。真是一群沒有感情的動物,他們不懂得用愛來挽留一個女人。當女人蔑視你的財產時,你的財產就一文不值。
我總想大地厚德載物,大地無語,你珍惜他還是蹂躪他,他都無語,好的壞的她悉數包容,大地無語并不代表她沒有力量,他會用大自然的力量告訴你應該尊重她。實事上失去西麗之后的生活告訴了那個男人過去的幸福生活是怎樣得來的,他重新審視了西麗的價值,此刻他懂得了西麗的珍貴。
以妥協求團結則團結亡,以斗爭求團結則團結存。西麗幾十年的妥協沒換來尊重,她用最后的抗爭贏得了尊敬。
第二篇:電影紫色觀后感
紫色觀后感
在人類文明發展的很長一段時間里,男人占領了社會中權勢與地位,他們制定法律、維持秩序、統治國家,甚至發動戰爭。女人在歷史舞臺上只是優雅的點綴或者驚鴻一瞥、靈光一現。眾多文學著作中,男人們利用金錢、權力和地位上演著一次次明爭暗斗,女人則更多地揮霍著青春與美貌,而這些不過是為了盼望男人們的回顧。長久以來的無形枷鎖,把她們置于社會舞臺的櫥窗內“展示拍賣”,幸福或是憂愁全都不由自己。1847年10月,《簡?愛》出版發行,夏洛蒂?勃朗特筆下的女主角不再嬌艷柔弱,她貧窮、矮小、黝黑,性格執拗,不同于其他地位懸殊的愛情故事,她沒有盲目沉醉于愛情的旋渦,而是昂首挺胸地追求著平等,不論是生活中的還是感情上的。舅母的無情讓她懂得反抗,孤兒院的艱苦讓她懂得忍耐,貴族小姐們的嘲諷輕視讓她懂得維持尊嚴,羅切斯特先生的隱瞞與強勢讓她拋棄唾手可得的幸福,踏上荊棘去追求愛情中的平等。雖然早在1789年,法國女劇作家已經開始了為女性爭取權力的序幕,但是《簡?愛》卻是讓很多女性獨立意識覺醒的啟蒙小說。美國黑人女作家艾麗絲?沃克就對此書愛不釋手。她于1982年寫出了轟動一時的《紫色》,跳脫了以往黑人小說中揭露種族歧視帶來的痛苦與仇恨,把視點放在了黑人男女間的家庭關系和男權的壓迫。這部小說在很多地方都受到了十八世紀末出生的女作家佐拉?尼爾?郝斯頓的影響。其作品《他們眼望上蒼》用流暢詩意的文字講述了一位黑人女性珍妮作為女人,在男權社會中爭取作為人基本的權力與尊嚴。在最初的幾年,小說由于“缺乏種族抗議和斗爭的觀點”而被束之高閣,到了70年代女權運動時期才被給予應有的贊譽。抗議種族矛盾的狂熱漸漸消退,人們開始探索自己族群中的文化和世界觀。郝斯頓作品中的黑人不因為自己的黑皮膚感到壓抑的痛苦,他們享受勞動帶來的快樂,也得面對生活中的災禍。相對于《紫色》女主人公茜莉的悲慘遭遇,珍妮有著“平靜幸福”的生活,先后嫁給了擁有田產的洛根和發跡致富的市長喬?斯塔克斯,但是她卻一次次從這種令旁人艷羨的生活中出走。因為兩個男人不是把她當作泄欲工具就是供人炫耀的附屬品,她不能和別人交談發表自己的意見,這是當時的社會給女人套上的無形鎖鏈。艾麗斯?沃克也在書中寫道“誰想要個丈夫所懂得一切她也都懂得老婆?”女人只是生育的工具,必生的最大理想就該是嫁個丈夫,盡忠盡職地打理家用。歷史賦予男人的權勢是看不見的軟鞭子,馴化了女人的夢想。珍妮離開洛根是因為喬?斯塔克斯渴望生活的改變,這讓她再次看到自己奄奄一息的夢想;她再次離開喬?斯塔克斯,因為他就像個巨大的車輪死死軋住她內心充沛的生命力,精神暴力讓她的心一次次窒息。最終她遇見了一貧如洗的韋吉伯?伍慈(外號甜點心),他的愛情與理解讓她再次復活。但是哪怕如此愛她,肯為她拼盡性命的甜點心仍舊會打她,不是為了憤怒,只是通過打她展示自己一家之主的地位。他和其他兩個男人一樣,在內心深處都認為自己為珍妮奉獻,那么珍妮就要無條件的依附于自己。
這是社會長久被男性統治的癥結,刻在每個人生命中的烙印。勇敢、獨立的女性們,用時間、用血淚、用毅力、用愛情、用一生和命運斗爭。
二、盛開在煙囪里的紫羅蘭
瑪雅?安吉羅(《我知道籠中鳥為何歌唱》)、托尼?莫里森(《最藍的眼睛》)和佐拉?尼爾?郝斯頓(《他們眼望上蒼》)這幾位頗具影響力的黑人女作家,在小說中都談及一個不容忽視的社會問題,即黑人女性遭到奸污,罪犯的身分各異:母親的男友、父親、學校老師。更加冷酷的現實是那些強奸犯沒有受到任何懲罰甚至是指責。大多數女性對于這種遭遇的反應大多是保持緘默,讓恥辱在心中慢慢割開一個洞,生活還在繼續,活著才最重要,其余的都可以被掩埋。
(1)茜莉
電影“紫色”(The Color Purple,1985)(根據艾麗絲?沃克的小說改編)開場不久,茜莉就迎來了痛苦的分娩,那時候她才十四歲,就生下了繼父的孩子。繼父賣掉了出生的嬰兒,還威脅茜莉說“除了上帝,你最好絕不要對誰說。”于是她只能將惱人的生活和不解的心事傾訴給從不寫回信的上帝。在訴說中她很少提及男人的姓名,都是以“先生”、“爸”或者“他”來代替,在她內心深處,這些男人不配有名字,同時,這種表達也透露了她心中深深的恐懼,仿佛那些男人的名字都能傷害她。繼父的打罵與侵犯讓她失去了生育的能力,也讓她抵觸所有男性,對他們不敢斜視。后來他又像處理舊貨一樣把她嫁給了阿爾伯特。
阿爾伯特更是沒有把她當人看,待她還不及地上的一灘泥土,覺得她又丑又笨,倒是干起活來還有點男人勁兒。茜莉是繼父的交易籌碼,丈夫的眼中廢物,養子們也不把她當回事兒,不管她多么溫柔地待他們,他們也不會像愛母親那樣愛她、尊敬她。唯一愛她的是聶蒂,她聰明美麗的妹妹。聶蒂教她認字,教她自己認為需要知道的一切,只有有知識以后才能逃離這個魔窟。但是茜莉腦袋似乎總是不太靈光,其實不是因為那個男人說的什么天生蠢笨,而是因為過于繁重的勞作讓她動不起來腦筋。聶蒂總說:“你應該斗爭!你應該斗爭呀!”可是茜莉不懂得如何斗爭,她只懂得:“要活下去。”她就像辛勤勞作的騾子,為了不挨打,每當“先生”(阿爾伯特)發出一個命令,馬上就會跳起來去執行。他不大會打自己的孩子,但是會打她,不管是誰的錯都打她。正如他說的那樣:“老婆像孩子,你得讓她知道誰厲害。除了狠狠揍她一頓,沒別的辦法。”這個說法和《他們眼望上蒼》中甜點心的想法簡直如出一轍。他們也許受過不同的教育,生活在不同的環境,但是他們對待女人用暴力統治的態度卻是驚人的一致。
(2)索菲婭
茜莉的繼子哈潑和妻子索菲婭就是典型的丈夫要用暴力統治產生的悲劇。索菲婭是個好女人,勤勞能干,只要是哈潑正當的要求她從來不會拒絕。她不自私、不記仇、不妒忌,她很愛哈潑。但是哈潑偏是不肯過安寧日子,非要性格剛烈的索菲婭變成看家狗那樣乖巧。索菲婭終于厭倦了,厭倦了哈潑非要讓她百依百順,像馴服動物一樣對她打來打去。她帶著孩子走了,滿肚子怨氣的她遇見了市長夫婦,對待市長夫人的無理要求給予當面回絕,對市長的荒唐指責出拳相向,他們和哈潑一樣,奪走她做人的尊嚴。接下來的結果自然是令所有觀者辛酸的:一群強壯的白人男性把索菲婭圍在中間,她孤立無援,她雖然強壯、勇敢,但是她敵不過那么多男人的圍攻,敵不過社會偏見的重壓,那么多人圍成一個牢籠把她緊緊套牢。再次看到她時,她已經失去了生氣,仿佛是從地獄里走出來的亡靈,眼鏡被打瞎了一只,滿頭的青絲染上了白霜。市長夫人再次以一副救世主的神情讓她到家中來當傭人,毫無人性地隔絕她和親人。市長夫人代表了社會上的權力,哈潑代表了家庭中的權力,雖然程度不同,但他們都希望索菲婭百依百順,對自己的一點“恩惠”感恩戴德。
(3)莎格?阿維里——蜜蜂女王
第一次知道“先生”的名字是阿爾伯特還是從莎格的口中,她是眾人口中傳頌的“蜜蜂女王”,唱歌動聽、光彩照人;她也是臭名昭著的壞女人,連親生父親都不愿意承認她,大家都懷疑她的孩子是和不同男人生的。茜莉第一次看到她肆無忌憚大笑的照片,就為之著迷。而莎格見到茜莉的第一句話竟然是“你確實很丑!”坦率且沒有任何惡意,咯咯地笑聲在生病的身體里發出來卻像咆哮。她是嘴里裝滿爪子的虛弱小貓,把阿爾伯特費勁做的飯菜扔得到處都是,稍有不滿意就對著他破口大罵。她是名副其實的女王,阿爾伯特沒有了一絲往日囂張的氣焰,完全就是個唯唯諾諾想要討好女王的士兵。
慢慢就會發現,那些男人并非是鐵石心腸、毫無人性。哪怕是阿爾伯特也會為了維護莎格違逆了父親的意愿,這點上他和茜莉的感情倒是前所未有的統一——他們都愛莎格。在電影中,莎格更像是茜莉的知心姐妹,通往平等世界的啟蒙老師。在小說中,她們之間則是女人間的愛情——茜莉常因為她和“先生”睡在一起嫉妒得發狂,想要嘗嘗她手指頭的味道,親吻她的嘴唇,吻到不能再吻。她不僅讓茜莉發現了自己的存在價值和美麗,也讓茜莉得到了愛情。對于原作中這種安排,難免有些女權主義的味道,很多女權主義者認為在男權社會里,只有女人之間才能相互支持、依靠,在許多小說中,女人都有自己忠實的同性伙伴。更有一些激進的人,認為只有女人間的愛情才能真正平等。不過,縱觀茜莉備受壓抑的情感生活,這種發展也不算牽強。她繼父的性侵犯和毆打讓她對男人懷著恐懼,從她不能生育那天起更是斷絕了女人的一個部分,即愛上男人的可能。她只敢看女人,而莎格又是那么美,那么與眾不同,與一切壓迫她的社會都格格不入。認識莎格后,茜莉第一次沖出自己的小天地,想到了世界。莎格給了她想都不敢想的那些情感,喚醒了她身體中沉睡的夢想,讓她第一次想要逃離這個家庭。當時,她以為妹妹聶蒂已經死去,莎格就變成了她全部的情感寄托。她需要愛,而莎格給她愛。有時候,愛情就是這么簡單。
為了電影更易被大眾接受,導演斯皮爾伯格在電影中加入了更多溫情有趣的細節,比如茜莉姐妹在向日葵地里玩耍,阿爾伯特見到莎格猶如小丑一般的滑稽表現。電影也讓茜莉和莎格之間的愛情更加曖昧不明,也沒有細述原著中對于非洲社會的追根溯源。影片的結局更加戲劇化,更加圓滿,可以說是一種美化,也可以說是一種美好的期許。
漂流在社會不同地方的女人,都有一種情感是相同的,那就是孤獨。黑人被社會拋棄是一種孤獨,而當家庭都要拋棄女人時,那種無處棲身的孤獨讓她們在彼此間尋找慰藉。莎格說,“如果你走過田野里哪個地方,而沒注意到一片紫色的話,上帝就會大發脾氣。”紫色是幽靜的、矛盾的,是熱烈的紅色和憂傷的藍色調合出來的孤獨,是代表著永恒的美好的紫羅蘭,是茜莉的善良、聶蒂的聰慧、索菲婭的勇敢和莎格的美麗,你若經過她們不回頭看看這盛放在社會底層黝黑煙囪中的紫色,連上帝也會為之嘆息。
正如海報上所寫的,It's about life.It's about love.It's about us.其實,是女人的蘇醒和變化史,有關希莉,有關莎格,有關蘇菲亞。起初看來,希莉命運是很悲慘的。14歲遭繼父強*,連續生下一兒一女,都被繼父賣掉。隨后又被嫁給粗魯野蠻的埃爾伯特,對這一切,她只是默默的承受,生活的每天就是家務、農事、挨打、等待。生活的轉變在于遇到莎格,這個起初嘲笑她,隨后被她感動,之后愛上她教她如何笑什么是被愛的感覺的女人。生活慢慢有了變化。希莉學會了燦爛的笑,學會了把打扮自己,更重要的,學會了自信。在看到遠隔多年的妹妹的信后,在重新審視自己生活后,她獨立了,離開了這個她稱作“先生”而又毫無紳士風度可言的男人,去過自己的生活。在繼承了生父的遺產后,開辦了自己的服裝店。最后,無比幸福地與兒女及妹妹重逢。
The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker.It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director(not including the 1971 television film Duel), and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous.Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina,[1] the film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism.Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions Taking place in the Southern United States during the early 1900s to mid-1930s, the movie tells the life of a poor black woman, Celie Harris(Whoopi Goldberg), whose abuse begins when she is young.By the time she is fourteen, she has already had two children by her father(Leonard Jackson).He takes them away from her at childbirth and forces Celie(Desreta Jackson)to marry a local widower Albert Johnson, known to her only as “Mister”(Danny Glover), who treats her like a slave.Albert makes her clean up his disorderly household and take care of his unruly children.Albert beats her often, intimidating Celie into submission and near silence.Celie's sister Nettie comes to live with them, and there is a brief period of happiness as the sisters spend time together and Nettie begins to teach Celie how to read.This is short-lived, however;after Nettie refuses Albert's predatory affections once too often, he kicks her out.Before running away, Nettie promises to write to Celie.Albert's old flame, the jazz singer Shug Avery(Margaret Avery), for whom Albert has carried a torch for many years, comes to live with him and Celie.Delirious with sickness, Shug initially regards Celie as “ugly” on their first meeting.Despite this, they eventually become close friends and Shug helps Celie raise her self-confidence.Shug and Celie also entertain an affair
Celie also finds strength in Sofia(Oprah Winfrey), who marries Albert's son Harpo(Willard E.Pugh).Sofia has also suffered abuse from the men in her family, but unlike Celie, she refuses to tolerate it.This high-spiritedness proves to be her downfall, however, as a rude remark to the town mayor's wife and a punch to the mayor himself ends with Sofia beaten and jailed..Shug teaches her about her own body, sensuality, singing, living, and loving.After moving to Memphis with Shug, abandoning Mr.____, and starting her own clothing company(Folkspants), Celie learns that she has inherited her old home.She returns to it, waiting for Shug, Nettie, and her children to return to her, so that they may live as one family.Mr._______(Albert): Mr._______ is given no surname throughout the book and is only called by his first name, Albert, by Shug Avery.Initially a cruel man, Mr.______ beats Celie and forces her to do nothing but work, while he plays with his mistress, Shug Avery.However, as he grows older and loses people in his life, he discovers the importance of religion and kindness.Shug Avery: Shug Avery is the exotic singer and entertainer who steals both Mr._____ and Celie's heart instantly.She performs a famous nightclub act, known as the 'Queen Bee', develops a reputation for sinning and drinking, falls ill with the woman's disease, moves in with her lover, Mr._____, and eventually falls in love with Celie.She teaches Celie the beauty of femininity of love of relationships and kindness.Even though she moves around the country and sleeps with many men, she ultimately loves Celie with all her heart.Sofia Butler: Sofia is a robust youthful pregnant fifteen year old girl when Harpo introduces her to his family.Outspoken, independent, and strong,
第三篇:紫色英文觀后感
The Self-consciousness Awakening in The Color Purple The film named The Color Purple tells a story of a young African girl, Celie, who was separated with her little sister because of their unfortunate fate.During their separation, Celie had several setbacks in her life but she was inspired by friends as well.Eventually, she challenged herself and reunioned with her sister.What I want to discuss is the self-consciousness awakening of black woman in this story.Celie is the major role of the movie.Ugly, black, timid… It seems that all kinds of pitiful adjectives could work on her.She was devastated by her step-father and gave birth to children when she was fourteen.Then her step-father snatched her children and she married Mister, a rude man reluctantly.She has to do all the housework, look after the naughty children and bear the bad temper or maybe the violence from her husband.She was in distress but never to fight for freedom, she only poured out her trouble to God.When Shug, Mister's lover, came into her life, Celie begun to see her worth as a human being.Celie also found strength in Sofia, Mister's son Harpo's wife.Sofia had also suffered abuse from men in her family.But unlike Celie, she refused to tolerate it.Finally, she left Mister and cried out, “ I'm poor, black.I may even be ugly.But dear God, I'm here!” The words remind me of the words in Jane Eyre:“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am
soulless and heartless?You think wrong!–I have as much soul as you,–and full as much heart!And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” Although they are in different country and different times, they both understood their own value and fight for independence through their own efforts.When discriminated and dominated, women should get rid of the mental shackles, maintain the integrity of the spiritual world and rely on women's mutual concern and support.Only through this way can women achieve real independent and autonomy.
第四篇:紫色 書評
Once upon a time, for thousands of years, the status of the women is in the bottom, whether in the family or society, gender discrimination has been oppressed women, deprived of their political rights, education opportunity and social life.However, from the beginning of the mid eighteenth century, feminism has been put forward, then women's liberation movement lift a burst of tide, women began to fight for the rights of equality with men.A lot of women go out of the society and enter into the political area.Finally, they play an important role in politics.The uneducated Celie and her sister Nettie lived with their stepfather in the south of the United States.Celie was raped by her stepfather and gave birth to two children, but the children were given others by her stepfather.Her mother also died of a broken heart.Later, her stepfather married her to a rude blackman Mr.Albert, and she continued to suffer persecution.Luckily, her sister Nettie companied her.However, her husband Albert coveted Nattie and wanted to rape her.In the end ,Albert evicted her because ofher resistance, which made the sisters apart.From then on, Celie’s world became even more miserable.Year after year, Celie waited for her sister's letter painfully , but under her husband's dominance, it’s impossible for Celie to get letters from the mailbox.Afterwards, Shug, a singer who is admired by Albert, wasbroughtback to his home.Under the good care of Celie, Shug gradually recovered and established a good friendship with Celie.With the help of Shug, Celie found that Albert hided all letters from Nattie, and she realized that women also had liberty as long as they fighted.At last, Celie left Albert for getting freedom.She also became confident and learned to appreciate herself.After her stepfather died, Celie inherited the house and shops that her biological father left.The end of story is Celie reunited with her sister and her own children.She not only won her liberty, respect and love, but also established a harmonious relationship with men.When I read she reunited with her sister and her own children, I was deeply touched, and also cheered for her final freedom.If there is no her consciousness and no fight, she won't get the final freedom.We live in a peaceful age, so we should also have the spirit of revolt.When we encounter unfair treatment, we should strive to fight;when we encounter setbacks, we should be more confidence to the life, just like Celie, no matter how much persecution she suffered, she never lost confidence.Therefore,she fighted for her own freedom that she wanted to get.The book names Purple, since ancient times, people praise of purple.Being beautiful and mysterious, purple is the symbol of dignity and able to deeply impress people.It plays important role in the book.Purple represents the womanist’s good ideals and expection to gender relations.Purple also stands forgood affection between Celie and Nattie.It symbolizes the spiritual sustenance of Celie and goodliness.Therefore, its vanishment is also the beginning of nightmare, and it foils the theme , characters and fate.So purple becomes the color clues throughout this book.曾經,千百年來,女性的身份位于最底層的,無論是在家庭或是社會,性別的歧視一直壓迫著女性,剝奪了她們受教育、參與政治以及社會生活的權利。然而從十八世紀中葉開始,女性主義不斷被提出,隨后婦女解放運動掀起一陣又一陣的浪潮,女性開始為了能夠與男性平等進行抗爭,爭取權益。大量的女性走出社會,步入政治舞臺,占領半邊天。
未受教育的喜麗和妹妹緹娜與繼父生活在美國南部,喜麗被繼父強奸并生下了兩個孩子,孩子卻被繼父送給了別人,母親也傷心去世。之后喜麗被繼父強迫嫁給了粗魯的黑人男子艾伯特,繼續遭受迫害,幸好有緹娜的陪伴。然而,一直覬覦緹娜的艾伯特在強暴未遂后將她趕出了家門,使姐妹從此分開,喜麗的世界變的更加悲慘。年復一年,喜麗苦等著妹妹的來信,但迫于丈夫的強勢,根本接觸不到信箱和信件。之后,艾伯特接來了他一直心儀的歌女夏葛,夏葛灑脫有個性,在俱樂部里所有人都圍著她轉,在接受了喜麗的照顧后,幫助喜麗覺醒。最終在夏葛的幫助下離開了艾伯特,得到了解脫,為自己爭取到了自由。
在我看到她與妹妹,兒女重逢時,我深深的受到感動,也為她最后的自由歡呼。如果沒有她的覺悟,沒有她的反抗,她就得不到最后的自由。生活在和平時代的我們也應該具備這種反抗精神,當我們遭遇不公平待遇時,我們應該奮力斗爭;當我們遇到挫折時,我們更要對生活充滿信心,正如喜麗一樣,不管遭遇多大的迫害,她從沒失去信心,所以她反抗,為她自己更為她想要的自由。
書以紫色為名,自古以來,人們贊美紫色,它神秘而又高貴。紫色起著重要的作用。紫色代表了婦女主義者對兩性關系的美好理想與期盼。紫色也代表著喜麗與緹娜姐妹之間的美好感情和喜麗的精神寄托,紫色的出現意味著美好,而它的消失也是噩夢的開始,對主題、人物角色與命運產生強烈的烘托和呼應,成為貫穿全片的色彩線索。
第五篇:紫色 故事梗概
《紫色》故事梗概
《紫色》全書由九十四封書信構成。故事發生在二十世紀初,背景是美國南方佐治亞鄉村。講述的是一個未受過教育,遭受男性壓迫的黑人女孩,在其他女性的幫助下,逐漸發現自我,擺脫壓迫,成長為一個自強獨立、擁有完整人格和尊嚴的女性的故事。小說深刻揭示了黑人男性對女性的壓迫,成功塑造了黑人女性形象,并宣揚了女性成長和女性間關愛的主題。
小說主人公茜莉的故事凄慘哀婉、催人淚下。她不滿14歲就被繼父強奸懷孕而被迫停學,被剝奪了受教育的權利;母親重病,弟妹尚幼,滿腹悲哀孤立無助的小茜莉只有給上帝寫信傾述心聲。給上帝寫了一封又一封信, 茜莉受屈辱的命運卻得不到絲毫的改變。死了妻子的小農場主X先生,因四個孩子需要照料才把茜莉娶進門,對茜莉來說,婚姻遠不是苦難的結束,而是新一輪更痛苦的壓迫的開始。
茜莉一過門就被X先生的兒子打破了頭,不但自己得不到照顧,她還要馬上伺候那些孩子們。平時除了伺候丈夫照管孩子做好家務外,還得干地里的活。在所謂的“家”里,勤勞善良的茜莉得不到絲毫的溫暖和關愛,還常常遭到丈夫的毒打。在某某先生眼里,她不過是個不用付酬的保姆、勞力和泄欲工具,沒有一點做人的尊嚴。
茜莉唯一的精神寄托就是給杳無音訊的妹妹聶蒂和從不回答的上帝寫信,宣泄內心的孤獨與痛苦。受傳統思想的束縛,茜莉在某某先生非人的欺壓下,只能忍氣吞聲、逆來順受、麻木不仁,直到黑人女歌手莎格的出現。莎格是X先生的情人,X先生把生病的莎格接到家里來調養,寬厚善良的茜莉并沒有因為她是丈夫的情人而心存妒忌,相反,她卻精心細致地給予照料,在茜莉的悉心護理下,莎格的病逐漸痊愈,兩個女人之間也由此產生了深厚的友誼和感情。
從莎格幫助茜莉找到被X先生扣押的聶蒂來信起,茜莉的思想開始產生了巨大的變化。在莎格的幫助和啟發下,隨著性意識的覺醒,她開始發現和認識自我,由此產生了獨立自主意識,開始爭取做一個“人”的權利。她和莎格團結起來,與X先生作斗爭,痛斥他的無恥行為并勇敢地離開了X先生,開始了嶄新的人生里程。
在莎格的鼓勵和支持下,西莉開始為婦女制做各式花褲并獲得成功,繼而開設了一家服裝店,有了自己的事業,又繼承了生父留下的房產。至此茜莉獲得了經濟上的獨立和人格上的自主,靠自己的努力贏得了做人的尊嚴。從經濟的獨立到人格的完整,她終于能夠穿上自己喜愛的、夢寐以求的紫色衣服,開始了美好的新生活。這時,妹妹聶蒂帶著茜莉的兩個孩子和他們的配偶從非洲回來。整個故事以西莉和妹妹聶蒂以及自己孩子大團圓為結局表達了黑人女性渴望美好生活的善良愿望。