Theme Of Incident In A Rose Garden By Donald Justice And Sweat By Hurston

“They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other”(Hurston 164). While both the works “Incident In a Rose Garden” by Donald Justice and Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston treat the subject of the insignificance of success when facing inhuman forces, Justice is able to emphasize the theme by showing the non importance of status in the world, while Hurston highlights how the inhuman forces ultimately has complete control over everyones lives. Both are able to portray the theme through the use of symbolism, along with Justice using Irony and Hurston using Imagery.

In both of the texts we are able to see the theme of the

I ran until I found you”(Justice 10-11). Master approaches Death and tries to belittle him by treating him like an inferior, but because of the inhuman forces inevitable power Death was able to take the master's life and treated him just like any other human, showing the inhuman control that he has over everyone's life. The use of symbolism is also used in Their Eyes Were Watching God through the use of the hurricane to represent the inhuman power of God. Later in the story when Janie and Teacake are in the everglades the Seminoles warned the family that a hurricane

The reason the couple didn't feel threatened by the sea was because of the white influence, “The folks let the people do the thinking. If the castles thought themselves secure, the cabins needn't worry”(158). The hurricane then breaks into town and begins to flood their home, they decide they have to try to run from the force but find it too difficult and the hurricane results in hundreds dying, including white people. When the hurricane came in the night Janie had realized it was God with the world in his hands through the text, “The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Six eyes were questioning god”(Hurston 159). This shows that whatever was coming towards them was more than a normal hurricane and that it was actually the nature of God that they could not prevent even with the rich white people's help. Hurston also shows the symbolism of the inhuman forces of the hurricane by stating, “They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God”(160). The people can try to live for themselves and try to support themselves but