Comparing the Colour Purple and King Lear
Comparing the Colour Purple and King Lear
In both The Colour Purple and King Lear, sufferings of different kinds have led each character to become a better person as their journey of life progresses. In each characters journey, each have undergone many different sufferings, some went through physical sufferings of the body, some emotional sufferings of the soul and for some both. Although these sufferings were harsh on the characters, each have their own approach in handling them. As a consequence of the sufferings these characters went through, each individual changed in a unique way and transformed into a better person. Sufferings are not easy for any person to face, but as a result many often transforms into a better person.
In The Colour Purple by Alice Walker and in King Lear by William Shakespeare both protagonists have been put under consistent sufferings of the mind and of the soul. Other characters such as Corrine, Henrietta, Mr. _____, Tashi in The Colour Purple and Gloucester, Cordelia, Kent in King Lear have also been put under many sufferings. For Celie from The Colour Purple, sufferings of hers were uncountable, at a young age she was raped by her step-father repeatedly, later she was abuse by her husband which she was forced into marriage into and assaulted by his children. Despite the physical sufferings Celie was put under great amounts of emotional sufferings, such as being separate with her two new born at birth and also being separated with her only love one or over thirty years of not having any news of each other. ¡§Being alive begin to seem like a awful sin.¡¨ (Walker pg. 262) Emotional sufferings of the mind is not losing ones sanity it also includes worries, loving another and the feeling...