IndexAbstractIntroductionDiscussionConclusionAbstractIn this essay, Virginia Woolf's feminist theories are examined and analyzed, as well as connected to the famous novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Woolf introduces theories that women's economic and social freedom are crucial to women's advancement in society in her extensive essay A Room of One's Own. This essay explores Woolf's ideas and draws parallels to Walker's novel, as well as Woolf's progress and understanding of her theories, with the help of current scholarship on the issue. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay IntroductionVirginia Woolf writes, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," in her essay A room of her own. Thus Woolf begins a conundrum of ideas that women need economic and social freedom to progress in society and rise as equals to men. A room of one's own not only refers to a literal room, but also to a figurative room that allows the woman a space of her own. In other words, a woman's need for independence. “The only charge I could make against the Fellows and Scholars of whatever the college was was that in protection of their territory, which has been unrolled for 300 consecutive years, they had sent my little fish into hiding. " (Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. 1929:4)1 Woolf's quote represents the heavy relation of her work to the differences in higher education between men and women of the time, the latter being inferior to male. This highlights Woolf's view that women's ideas and thoughts were oppressed by society which further suppressed women's progress. This leads to the belief that women need their freedom to blossom and to emancipate themselves from isolation female. “Enabling women to gain greater economic clout allows them to lobby for social change, hence political and legal change” Chelsea Follet (2017) 3Nowadays, studies have been conducted that relate the empowerment and freedom of women with their economic status and how economic freedom would in turn lead to social freedom Chelsea Follet writes in FFE that to solve women's social problems, they need their own private economy, to achieve social freedom and, in turn, being part of a working society. Discussion Alice Walker's famous novel The Color Purple provides us with numerous examples of what Woolf's theories are based on. Celie and Shug Avery, the two opposites in the novel, find consolation in each other to reinforce the clear feminist thoughts in the novel. “I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive. ” (Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. 1982:22) Celie represents all the struggles of women in the novel of the time. This is about a young girl who at a very young age gave up any kind of struggle for her life to get better, as she did not experience any happiness in her life. Celie has no freedom, either social or economic, which many women of the 1930s did not have. As a woman, Celie was expected to become a wife and mother, taking care of the children and the home. These rigid structures governed by society did not allow women like Celie to work towards their economic independence. In turn, Celie had two controlling and abusive patriarchs in her life who did not allow for social freedom, first her stepfather and then the man she was married to. 2“Mr. he murmured, putting on his clothes. My wife.