Zusammenfassung der Ressource
RELIGION
- THE COLOR PURPLE-
Alice Walker
- AO3
- Top Girls (Caryl Churchill)
- Females equate to weakness.
- A04
- Racism
- Religious Negro
Epistolic
Churches
- Importance of
tight-knit female
friendships
- Women's double oppression
(brutality due to race and gendr)
- AO2
- Epistolary form
'Dear God'
- African-American venacular
- Euphemisms
- Curt observations
- Pantheism
- A01
- Uses 'God' as an escape from her daily
trials and tribulations
- Gender roles (females are
seen as vulnerable and
submissive)
- Male brutality
- THE HANDMAID'S TALE-
Margaret Atwood
- A04
- Early puritan society
- Traditional gender roles
- Orthodox views 'Nick' and 'Offred' ('s) marriage was not recognised
due to Nick being a 'marriedd divorcee'. The idea that you should only
marry once.
- A02
- Neoglisms
- Puns/inuendos 'you can't
make an omelette without
breaking eggs'
- Biblical references
'Jezabel's', 'Marthas'
- AO1
- Females are inferior, males
are superior
- Restriction of education for
women- Language is power
- Females are only made
to bear children
- Sexual objectifiction of
women
- Importance of marriage
- A03
- Top Girls (Caryl Churchill)
- In both texts the female gender is seen as incompetent and
merely used to bear children.
- A PIECE OF CAKE-
Cupcake Brown
- A02
- Blunt, matter of fact tone
- African-American venacular
- Explicit language
- Metaphors
- Repetition due to restricted vocabulary
- Biographical tone
- A01
- Trials and tribulations that females can be
subjected to i.e. rape
- Importance of education
- Family dysfunctions
- Reliance on God
- A03
- The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
- Both protagonist of these texts experience similiar
encounters, such as, childhood abuse and rape.
- Both writers carry a personal tone; both Walker's use of
epistolary form and Brown's use of memoirs show that they are
confiding in someone.
- Both female characters talk about their experiences as if they are numb; Cupcake
does not value life or children with losing count of how many abortions she has had. 'I
believed it to have been three or four'
- A04
- Cupcake Brown
- GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN-
James Baldwin
- A03
- The Colour Purple (Alice Walker)
- Both protagonists are impacted by negative patriachal forces within their
households, by the fathers (Alfonso) and (Gabriel)
- A04
- Civil Rights Movement
- King James Bible
- Harlem 1930s
- AO2
- Religious references 'The Prayers of
The Saints' 'Gabriel'
- References to the Old and New
Testament
- Juxtaposition
- A01
- Paternal relationships
- Religious conflict within family
- Jealousy
- Racial conflicts