Victimization (or victimization) is the process of being victimized or becoming a victim.

She encountered sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse from the time she was 14 years old. My first initial thought after watching The Color Purple was that the book itself, an award-winning novel. The movie is about a African American woman by known as Celie, who is trying to survive and discover herself in her reality. There is no one that helps her, no one to talk to her, and no one to educate her on life. From beginning to end you can see Celie’s role as a wife and mother change from dependent and weak to independent and strong. It is even sadder when Celie’s husband, Albert, treats her like dog scrap. Albert is displayed as an abusive partner who repeatedly beats and rapes her until his satisfaction. The whole novel is centered around a woman’s life and how she survived life in the early 1900’s.

A lot of Domestic Violence occurred when women would be “out of line” in the household. The man had full rights in the past to physically “punish” their wives. Men would exploit the fact they made money and use it against women. Women were also just given into marriage to different social classes. Usually the richer could choose whoever they wanted as their wife or slave. Married life was painful for Celie. She had to raise Albert’s children, take full control of any house chores, endure unenjoyably intimate nights with her husband, and take unnecessary beatings from him. Women would be sexually harassed and abused throughout their lives and it was represented in the movie. In the movie Celie’s first letter to God, we learn that she has been raped by her father, Alfonso. When Celie was young her mother became very ill and therefore couldn’t please her husband sexually. Then as Celie is outside one day, her stepfather grabs Celie and says, “You gonna do what your mammy