Their Eyes Were Watching God Compare And Contrast

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An emotion that never claims but never gives, yet suffers but never resents is hypocritical. However, perhaps the contradiction of that emotion, love, is the reason why the emotion is so profound. For if one can get the ultimate happiness that so many portray with love easily, then the ending would never be worthy of itself. That is why in the books Fathers and Children and Their Eyes Were Watching God shows the difference between the book's perspectives on love because of the actions taken for love and the origin of love stories in the books. While both works are different in their perspectives on love, they do share similarities in their actions, as such through those similarities the glaring differences in the book's perspectives would …show more content…

This can be grasped because Katarina is saying this even though the subject of submission in a relationship, although possible in the subject they are speaking, is being told almost as if that was the natural thought process for the character to have. Furthermore, the subject of submission is brought up again in the next page “Pretty feet you say. We’ll I’ll have him down at those feet” which is a fairly obvious display of submission as the first thought process coming from a character who believes in the ideal love. The eyes were watching God shows possession that is also being …show more content…

To begin, the pear tree motif is what Janie connected with marriage at the age of sixteen. Seen when she says”So this was marriage!” showing the origin of Janie's belief in marriage that she carries. The pear tree motif is a viewpoint on love that connects the subject to nature and marriages correlation to pleasure, shown in the description ”She saw a dust-bearing bees sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight”. The natural part of love in marriage can be seen through the bees and the tree, where the bee gives to the tree and tree gives back, The pleasure of love can be seen through the reaction of the tree “frothing with delight”. The application of the pear tree motif can be seen in the scene where Janie and Tea Cake were fighting because of jealousy. “Janie seethed.But Tea Cake never let go. They wrestled on until they were doped with their own perfumes and emanations; till their clothes had been torn away; till he hurled her there, melting her resistance with the heat of his body, doing things with their bodies to express the inexpressible”. The pear tree motif can be gleaned from this motif through the