Their Eyes Were Watching God Feminist Analysis

A feminist strong? Soft? Or both? It doesn’t matter. Feminism isn’t an edited mold, anybody can be a feminist, whether or not they are 5 to 80 years old or in 1920 or 2005. Feminism isn’t subjunctive to specifics and neither is feminist literature. Feminist literature is typically written by women projecting the struggles and uncertainties women face in real life through the storyline of a novel. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the audience follows the protagonist, Janie Crawford, recall her story to a good friend, Phoebe, after she has returned back from a trip. Throughout the book a journey is shown, journey from adolescences to death in an African American woman’s life in the pivotal 1930s’. Janie showcased a determination

For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon,” sets the background for the story (1).These ships are metaphorically dreams and aspirations of men and some dreams come to shore which is reality and others stay being seen at a distance in water, which is the metaphorical ocean of thoughts. Hurston furthers on the say that for women, “The dream is the truth.”(1). this intro sets the fundamentals for the reader to realize the difference between women and men’s dreams and opportunities. This opening shows the contrast of Janie vs. traditional women’s roles in her venture to achieve her dreams. Instead of just allowing her dreams to stay on the horizon, Janie is shown going after what she wants. It is seen from the very beginning when immediately after her moment of realization with her budding sexuality under the pear tree in chapter 2, she goes and kisses Johnny Taylor. Janie know what makes her feel good and she goes for it instead of staying with the limited and inactive traditional lifestyle. Jane showcases this characteristic later in the novel when Janie is prepared to leave with Joe and start a new marriage but also is prepared to leave alone and go on the journey to the horizons has been searching for since her youth. Even though all of Janie’s marriage oppressed her in a way, Janie still reaches her horizon in the end. The peak point of Janie’s

Janie Crawford found herself through the years of physical and emotional torment. Their Eyes Were Watching God reconstitutes the modern idea of a feminist and opens it up than the mold it is stuck in during the secular