Or perhaps it is the pagan transformation of God from patriarchal male supremacist into trees, stars, wind, and everything else, that camouflaged for many readers the book’s intent: to explore the difficult path of someone who starts out in life already a spiritual captive, but who, through her own courage and the help of others, breaks free into the realization that she, like Nature itself, is a radiant expression of the heretofore perceived as quite distant Divine. If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple (this color that is always a surprise but is
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The noted passage is in the introduction by
Alice Walker. Suggesting a desire to encounter the Universe on one's own terms-- not religious dogma. The pagan transformation of God from a patriarchal, male-supremacist figure to a more inclusive, nature-based spirituality. Celie begins as a "societal" captive, but through her journey, she breaks free and realizes her own nature.
