“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” Jane Austen. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston depicted the travels of Janie Crawford and her understanding of womanhood and freedom through her several marriages. Throughout the book, Hurston portrays the growth of Janie and her ideals, her hair being a major recurring symbol.
She comes to understand that love is not what she made it out to be when she was a young girl in the back of her nanny’s yard looking up at the pear tree. It is “ uh love game” (Hurston 114). It is not until the end of the novel, where Janie understands that she has lived her ideal “love” with Tea Cake for it was unconditional, raw, and
When Janie is sixteen years old, her nanny coerces her to marry a man named Logan Killicks to not disappoint her. Despite not loving Logan in the slightest, Jane marries him to make nanny proud, she goes along with it because she is under the conception that “marriage compel[s] love like the sun the day”(21). She believes that love will come eventually after marriage commences just as automatically as the sun rises each morning. Janie holds this idea with her because she wants to find love, and she thinks that marriage is the correct way of going about it. However, over the course of Janie’s marriage with Logan, she realizes this is not the case.
In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by, Zora Neale Hurston Janie, strives to find her own voice throughout the novel and she succeeds even though it takes her time to do it. Each one of her husband’s has a different effect on her ability to find her voice. Janie had noticed that she did not have a voice when Jody was appointed mayor by the town’s people and she was asked to give a few words on his behalf, but she did not answer, because before she could even say anything Jody had stated “ ‘Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’ ’bout no speech-makin’/Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn’t too easy/…the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything on way or another that took
Janie become infatuated by love. Throughout Their Eyes Were
During the early decades of the twentieth century, opportunities for women to speak up and share their voices were extremely limited. A defying woman of the era, Zora Neale Hurston, found an opportunity for her voice to be heard through her writing. At the Literary Awards Dinner in 1925, Hurston made a flamboyant entrance when she walked into a room of crowded people and shouted the title of her famous play: “Coooolor Struckkkk!” Clearly, Hurston proved she was not afraid to speak out and let her voice be heard. In her book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston demonstrates many factors can influence a person’s decision to speak up or not by charting Janie’s relationships with those around her.
Within the two marriages she has had within her life, she still hasn't experienced the happiness that true love leads to. Because of this, she is left to be unhappy and having her dream diminished in front of her. Janie's first marriage was with a man named Logan Killicks. Janie was not attached to Logan.
Janie thought that she would get the type of love that she had dreamed of for years. She thought she’d have “a bee for her bloom”. Unfortunately, this is not what she had gotten when she married Joe. She found change, and chance, and maybe a little adventure, but still she didn’t find the love she was hoping to have found. What Jody had with Janie was more of a type of lust than a type of love.
It is not confrontation that keeps Janie strong, but her retreat into silence that makes her strong. Through her hardships, Janie finds her true identity and the ability to control her voice. Janie uses speech as a vehicle for liberation through her marriages with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Vergible Woods.
(Hurston 24). Logan does not show any love for Janie. Janie’s unhappiness taught her that love can not be forced upon anyone. Joe prevails as the first man to show, Janie attention and affection. Both, Janie and Joe run off to Eatonville to start a life together.
“It was the time for sitting on porches besides the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long,”(1) throughout the entire day people on the porch have looked down and judged others for being the way they are. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God the dominant character Janie had a life full of dramatic aspects, with many influences. Her idea of porches and being gifted with the power to sit on them continually shine through the text.
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston there is a strong message regarding how men and women should act in a marriage. Janie, the main character, has to learn fast about her role in marriage. At first she going in marrying Logan Killicks thinking that marriage is going to be full of excitement, but is disappointed when Logan buts here to do field work. Resulting in her marriage with Joe Starks. Janie married him because Joe was a young man full of excitement.
The pursuit of dreams has played a big role in self-fulfillment and internal development and in many ways, an individual 's reactions to the perceived and real obstacles blocking the path to a dream define the very character of that person. This theme is evident in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, which is about the search for identity. A woman of a mixed ethnicity resides in several communities, each playing an important role and serve as crucial influences on her life. During the story, she endures two failed relationships and one good relationship, dealing with disappointment, death, the wrath of nature and life’s unpredictability.
The existence of ghosts or spirits has been a speculation by human beings for many centuries. There has not been a lot of proof within the field of science to show that ghosts and spirits are real. With that being said, many people still believe that once we pass away our spirits will linger on. After reading The Haunting of Hill House, The Turn of the Screw and The Shining, I have come to the conclusion that ghosts are a manifestation of madness, and not spectral forms of once living people. To begin in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, the Governess first sees a ghost who is known as Peter Quint.
Picture this: It’s 1937, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, while walking down the street in Harlem, one could hear the jazzy music of Louis Armstrong rolling across the streets. It was a time of new ideas, music, art, and literature. All of these radical changes to society, led to tremors that rocked the world in the coming decades. One such of these was the Civil Rights Movement, an effort to raise up the African-American man and all races to be equals. Along with men, women would be elevated.
