Abstract
From the beginning of the scholarly work on the women, most of the research have been carried out by opposite gender. Therefore, there have been limited work done to see how a woman portrays another woman in her writings. Moreover, there have been limited research conducted utilizing corpus tools for the analysis of gynocriticism. Thus, the present research aims to examine The Color Purple by Alice Walker by employing the corpus-based approach to investigate the representation of female character by the author in the novel. The positive or negative portrayal of women by the author in the novel was investigated through author’s usage of adjectives. Showalter's (2009) Theory of Gynocriticsim was used as a theoretical framework for the current research. Further, corpus-based methodology was employed to analyze how Alice Walker has portrayed the female character in her novel through the use of adjectives. An in-depth analysis has shown that Alice Walker has depicted woman as a helpless and sidelined being who can be turned as a resilient after suffering from frightful circumstances. The current research also opens new gates for the researchers to analyze the text from Gynocriticial perspective along with corpus techniques.
 Keywords: Adjectives; Corpus-based analysis; Gynocriticsim; The Color Purple; Woman
Highlights
Feminist movement encompasses those social movements or campaigns that seek to resolve the gender issues created due to the inequality between the sexes
To explore how Alice Walker has portrayed the female subject in her novel The Color Purple through the use of adjectives ii
How the female subject has been portrayed by Alice Walker in her novel The Color Purple through the use of adjectives?
Summary
Feminist movement encompasses those social movements or campaigns that seek to resolve the gender issues created due to the inequality between the sexes. The current study was a corpus based analysis of the language used in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. It aimed to examine how Walker has portrayed the female subject in her novel through the use of adjectives. This study has examined the language used in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple in the light of gynocriticism through a corpus based analysis of adjectives. To explore how Alice Walker has portrayed the female subject in her novel The Color Purple through the use of adjectives ii. How the female subject has been portrayed by Alice Walker in her novel The Color Purple through the use of adjectives?. Either positive or negative, has been used by Alice Walker in order to describe the female subject in her novel The Color Purple?
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
