Similarities Between Their Eyes Were Watching God And Tess Of The D Urbervilles

In the commencement of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Zora Hurston and Thomas Hardy introduce protagonist Janie and Tess. Two beautiful female protagonist who are both teased by society but both protagonist do not endure the teasing in the way. Janie is introduced with strength before beauty but Tess is first introduced with beauty and weakness. Janie is portrayed as a strong and beautiful woman while tess is portrayed as a beautiful but weak woman. Hurston and Hardy introduce the protagonist with similarity in appearance but contrast in their strength to get the reader to wonder whether Tess will change or remain the same throughout the novel. Hurston introduces her character, Janie through her strength before

Hurston describes these women as women who use use cruel words against Janie. Hurston explains how these women used cruel words against Janie. Hurston makes use of rhetorical question, “What she doing coming back here in dem overalls?” (2) a rhetorical question used by Hurston to portray the “envy” (2)these women have for Janie, “where she left that lad boy she went off here with” (2) Hurston shows how these women“judgement” (2) Janie on about everything that Janie does, has, and used to have because they’re envious of her. The readers expect Janie to feel hurt but instead as Janie arrived next to the porch sitter she said “good evenin” (2) Janie’s greeting left the porch sitters with “their mouths setting open”(2) something that cause the readers and the porch sitters to admire Janie's character. After Janie speaks she “kept walking straight on to her gate” (2) giving the reader an allusion to her strength. Hurston

But like protagonist Janie Tess is also “fine and handsome girl” (7) telling the reader that Tess is beautiful. Contrary to Janie what made Tess much more attractive was her “peony mouth and large innocent eyes” (7) which “added eloquence to her colour and shape” (7) indicating how beautiful and well shaped her body is. Tess “wore a red ribbon in her hair” (7) Hardy diction gets the reader to question whether Tess is a young lady or a woman. When it comes to portraying strength Hardy portrays Tess as an antithesis to Janie because her actions are weak and not strong as Janie’s action. Tess while at the at the cheerful event the “clubbist” (7) seem to see her father and they “titter” (7) they giggle at how her father is portraying himself as “foolish”(7) next to these girl but Tess speaks out and says “He’s tired, that’s all,”(7) which is an action Janie will not do. They afterward tease her by mentioning that her father “got his market-nitch [drunk]. Haw-Haw!” (7) unlike protagonist Janie the narrator says “Tess cried, and the colors upon her cheeks spread over her face and neck”. (7) portraying how weak and emotional Tess is when it comes to enduring the tease society throws at her. Instead of being calm Tess says “Look here; I won’t walk another inch with you, if you say any jokes about him” (7) this command portray how angry and her