Silent Agonise of Black 'Celie' and Brown 'Jasmine' in America

Both the characters Jasmine and Celie as a girl child were brutalized right from their childhood. Celie's sufferings and agonies starts when she was raped by her stepfather Alfanso whereas Jyoti's tragic life starts when she leaves her native India and journey's to America. Celie shared her traumatic experiences by writing letter to god and later to her sister Nettie. On the other hand Jyoti undergoes series of transformation from Jyoti-Jasmine-Jazzy-Jassy-Jase-Jane. Her each incarnation thus symbolizes new life and new self with its new changed identity. Both the novelist represented violence in sarcastic manner. Celie not only undergoes with physical violence but also spiritual violence. In Jasmine violence is portrayed through communal riots and when Jasmine murdered Half-Face. Celie was portrayed as sacrificing figure whereas Jasmine on the other hand throughout the novel searches her better prospects in life and her thirst for self-identity. Both the characters adopted America as new existence with dilemma of acculturation and assimilations. The silent sufferings of Celie and Jasmine in alien world conceptualizes the different perception of life, 'The Colour Purple' finally had blissful ending as Celie's reunion with her family takes place in the end whereas Jasmine compared herself as an unsatisfied soul behaving like tornado.