The Color Purple has often been read as a metaphor for the African American legacy. Set in the Deep South during the first half of the twentieth century, the novel traces the life of one remarkable family—a family that asks us to consider questions about the making of an abuser (what are the true roots of controlling, hurtful behavior?) and the recipe for peace (how can we find the courage to eradicate suffering throughout the world?) Alice Walker's The Color Purple is an example of a "woman's novel." This means not just that it was written by a woman, but that it carries on an identified tradition of women's writing, in terms of narrative strategies, themes addressed, and voice. This is not to say that all women write about the same things; but there is a tradition known as women's literature, which has developed with a consciousness of women's traditions of writing as distinct from men’s' ways of writing, The Color Purple touches on hardships many African Americans encountered, such as sexism, lesbianism, rape and religion. It is a very feministic novel that depicts the hardships of African Americans, but African American women specifically. This paper describes the contribution of the novel to the seminal ideas of conscience and seeking one's self, using schemes that intertwine with feminist criticism. The methodology involves the discourses on the images of women in "The Color Purple", the association between the oppression of women and the exploitation by male dominance, enslaving the female in the commercial market. Through a psychological lens, this paper finds that Alice Walker infuses her novel with a theme of liberation from domination and violence thereby giving contour to a literature that heals, enlightens, and empowers. Alice Walker foresees the establishment of symbiosis, in which there is no male oppression or emotional exploitation.