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Shug and Celie in The Color Purple The consanguinity between Shug and Celie cuts very deep. Both of them help each other let what they really need to be. Both Celie and Shug were very oppressed people. Celie was oppressed by her lack of caring, and by her lack of self esteem. Shug is caught in other peoples bod of her. She is not free to become what she really wants to be, which is a loving atom of a loving family, which she neer really had. This is shown by the quote on page 125-6. (Mama) never love to do nothing had to do with tinge nobody, she say. I try to kiss her, she turn her blab away. Say, Cut that out, Lillie. Celie freed Shug from the use of goods and services that everybody trea currentd her to fit into, and Shug freed Celie from the psychological bonds that were keeping her from making of her life what she wanted it to be, by being a mixture of friend, idol, lover, and teacher. Both Celie and Shug became what they were told they would. Celie was always told th at she was ugly, that she was useless, that she was worthless. Alphonso and Mr.----- never lost an opportunity to tell her so. And so Celie became and believed she was ugly, useless, and worthless. Even Shug, when she first met her, exclaimed You sure is ugly (pg.48). Shug was told, first by her mother and then in the level-headed peoples opinion, that she was a whore, that she was wicked, and so she became a Temptress of sorts. Even the preacher got his mouth on Shug Avery, now she down. He take her condition for his text. He dont bitch no name, but he dont have to. Everybody know who he mean. He talk most a strumpet in short skirts, fastball cigarettes, drinking gin. Singing for money and taking other women mens. Talk about slut, hussy, heifer, and streetcleaner. (Pg 46). She was the woman that all the men wanted and all the women hated, because there was so much she dared to do and so little anyone could do to stop her. However, uncomplete of them necessarily wanted to take part in those roles, and both of them tangle confined in them. Shug has a certain Venus Image in the novel. She fits the role of the seductive woman, the temptress, the devil.