The book “The Color Purple” is a book that shows that people can have many different dominate and non-dominate archetypes. This is shown by how the characters have different sides to them. Celie is the main person that shows this change of dominate archetype the most. At the beginning of the book and throughout most of the book Celie was the quiet one who did exactly what she was told to do even though she didn’t want to do what she was told to do. At the end of the book she stood up to her “husband” and said that she was leaving and that she wasn’t going to put up with him treating her like a piece of shit anymore. This is a major change in Celie’s personality and dominate archetype because her archetype changed and it did not change back to the quiet innocent person she was at the beginning of the book.
Shug shows that she has more than just the side of her where she is being a little bit crazy. I mean she has more to her than just her crazy lifestyle of singing on the road and being a sexual deviant. She also has a softer side. She shows this when she reunites with her father. With the way her personality is and the way she lives her life you never would have been able to tell that she was a preacher’s daughter. This also shows that she went from being a preacher’s daughter and “a good girl” to living the lifestyle that everyone knows her to have and being “a bad girl.”
Sofia also changed a lot. She went from the woman that would kick a guys ass to a very quiet woman who just wants to be with her family. This all happened after she spent time in jail. She went to jail for hitting the mayor’s wife when she wanted her to work for her. When she came out of jail she didn’t even think about violence or hitting anybody. This was a big archetype change, from worrier to the orphan. She became the orphan because she didn’t really have a relationship with her children and she didn’t want to lose their love or lose them in her life.
