Womanism in The Color Purple by Alice Walker “Whenever they ask me to do something, Miss Celie, I act as if I were you. I immediately jump up and do just what they say” (88). This line conveys how obedient Celie is towards others, which she learns from her own people. The black community degrades black women to make it difficult for them to become independent (Tanritanir and Aydemir 438). Alice Walker experiences this and understands the need to express the black woman's struggle to the world. She, along with other black women writers, coins the term womanism to explain the idea of ​​prevailing in this struggle. By having Celie overcome the oppression she faces, Alice Walker illustrates the theme of feminism in her novel The Color Purple. WomanismFeminist ideals are based on the connection between racism and sexism. Walker uses this connection to help construct each aspect of the oppression Celie faces. An example of this is when she connects sexism and racism by having Nettie write to Celie about the people of Olinka not educating women “like the white men back home” (Ogunyemi 70). It is showing how black women are uneducated not only because of their race, but also because of their gender. Black women face these unique issues because of hookup, so the issues are never fully resolved (Hutchison 185). In addition to these issues, Celie faces rape and incest in her life. In the very first letter Celie writes to God as a child, she describes her first experience of rape. Before detailing what he does to her, she writes that he says, "You'll do what your mama wouldn't do" (1). This event scares her for the rest of her life and ultimately shapes her personality. Rape and incest are obvious themes in the novel, and Walker does this to reflect the truth of black women's lives during this time period (Tanritanir and Aydemir 438). As the novel progresses, Celie realizes that rape is very wrong and she must stop it from happening. However, she is still burdened by the memory of her father abusing her and her two children born of incest. Fortunately, this is not true, which he realizes when Nettie describes the situation. Celie finally embraces womanist ideals and defends herself. After many years, she is able to realize that she does not have to listen to men's requests and has the right to live her own life (Tanritanir and Aydemir 443). Once she reaches this stage in her life, she lets her husband know how she feels and says, “You're a dishonest dog, that's what's wrong, I say. It's time to leave yourself and enter Creation. And your corpse is just the welcome mat I need” (199). Based on these lines, his change is very drastic. She suddenly realizes that she is a strong woman who can stand up for herself. Celie then moves to Memphis with Shug. Celie finally has the space and freedom to become independent and express her creativity with her business (Nguyen 6). This is the next important step towards its transformation. With men no longer around for the first time in her life, she is able to find herself and discover her passions; she can finally become a happy and independent woman. Along with this vital personal transformation, Celie's view of God also changes. Until Celie gets closer to Shug, she sees God as the stereotypical white male. She believes that He, like the other men in her life, does not want her to be happy, which is why she has so many misfortunes. Shug is able to show Celie that she should not see God as a man but rather as an "It" to try to suppress the