Saputri, Lilis Juliana Aulia (2026) THE STRUCTURES, MECHANISMS SUSTAINING PATRIARCHAL DOMINATION, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR CELIE IN ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Humanity.

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Abstract

This research examines the structures, mechanisms sustaining patriarchal domination, and their consequences for Celie as reflected in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Employing a qualitative descriptive method with a library research approach, this study applies Sylvia Walby’s theory of patriarchy within the perspective of feminist literary criticism to explain how male violence, patriarchal household production, and patriarchal sexuality are represented and interconnected through Celie’s experiences, how control over women’s labor, unequal gendered power relations, and patriarchal ideology sustain and reproduce patriarchal domination, and how these interconnected structures affect Celie’s autonomy, psychological condition, and the development of her resistance and transformation. The findings reveal that patriarchy operates as an interconnected system in which male violence, domestic labor exploitation, and control over women’s sexuality mutually reinforce one another through unequal power relations, labor control, and patriarchal ideology, resulting in the loss of Celie’s autonomy and psychological trauma while simultaneously fostering her resistance and transformation. This research concludes that The Color Purple portrays patriarchal domination as an interconnected system that controls women’s bodies, labor, sexuality, voice, and autonomy, offering a systematic understanding of how patriarchal domination is represented in the novel.
Keywords: patriarchy, domination, mechanisms, resistance, The Color Purple

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