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Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon. My name is ——from class—. The title of my thesis is——. This thesis is completed under the instruction of Ms.. I’m extremely grateful to her for her constant direction and suggestion for revising the draft of my paper. I also have to thank the professors sitting here today for your generosity in spending your time here. My thesis is about the Celie’s transmutation from an obedient, numb, oppressed country girl to an independent and strong woman both in economy and emotion, exploring the growth path of black women. I choose this as my topic due to several reasons. First, I’m fond of literary works and I was impressed a lot the first time I read the color purple. Second, As the protagonist of the book, Celie is the representative of all the repressed women who fight to be free. The path of Celie’s independence is an important and inspiring part in The Color Purple. I hope by studying this topic, we can help to provide spiritual power for oppressed women who want to seek for freedom and find a solution for the plight of women in ethnic minorities in western society. There are three chapters in addition to introduction and conclusion in this paper. Part one is the introduction part which presents the social conditions of the American Feminist Movement and main story of the color purple. Part two is chapter one. It analyses the causes of celie’s ugliness, including social oppression from racism and patriarchal society and family causes. Chapter two discusses the driving forces for the transmutation of celie. Black women’s creativity and mutual assistance among them are key points to her transmutation. Through the love and concern among women, she learns with the spirit of resistance, finding her own spiritual beliefs and pillars. Chapter three presents the basic definition of female beauty and analyses the celie’s beauty after her independence. She grows from an ugly duckling who can only tolerate everything silently into an independ