On The Female Images Shaped By Alice Walker

Alice walker is one of the most influential black woman writer in the history of American literature. She has composed six novels to express their discontent about black women are oppressed.At the same time,she encourages black women to resistant for the liberation. Undobetdly, each work has its broad background.As a female writer, Alice walker ’s female characters play a dominant position in her books, thus she created quite a bit of a variety of female images in her books. Their experience is different, they have different characters. Generally, it can be divided into three categories: one is under the age of female tragedy image; the second is out of the "siege", completely awakening of female images; the third is self-esteem and self-image of mature women. The first kind of female image is influenced by traditional thoughts, living in the shackles of society, who silently suffers from various aspects such as treated unfairly, family violence, But did not make this kind of black women suffering awake, they choose to endure in silence, for the men of his own house to find excuses to explain the rough treatment,even maybe have thought to resist, but they are not so strong that they die from despair; the second category of female image is numb alive at the beginning, but with the help of social activities and friends to promote them finally toward independence,This kind of black women to those women who are suffering in the gender discrimination and racism saw hope, told them to break the original social model, no longer subject to the male oppression and struggle for their own independent life; the third type of female image is troubled Crusades. They live artificially,They also live in the double oppression, but they were not the inherent thoughts, but efforts to pursue what you want, so do not hesitate to fights with men,revolting against all kinds of oppression in public and setting the benchmark for the liberation of black women.These three kinds of female images have their own characteristics,female image deep tragedy shows the plight, black women was a blow to the black women: expect black men self-awareness is impossible, just endure suffering and oppression will only fan the flames of them; Awakening of female image is vividly express the black women’s dignity and value, they are no longer willing to live in the inherent social mode, no longer willing is oppressed by black men, the reality of life makes them stand up and fight for his dignity and freedom, which not only make the black women’s liberation, also affect the emancipation of black men; Mature female image for black women to grow firmly exploration direction and road to development, they are no longer willing to when the roles of men for their custom, but according to the ideas of their own growth and life, and live better.Walker, looking for the majority of black women in American society and their underlying reality of survival, combining with his personal experience to the pen for the sword, directed at racial and gender discrimination in the plight of black women under the double self struggle and redemption to allow readers to have a deeper understanding of the sufferings of black women.