The Main Themes In Sweat By Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston is an author who tries her best to reflect what happen in her life through poems, short stories, and novels. Zora was one of the many Harlem Renaissance writers, even though her work didn’t get much recognition. Because they were not considered the norm of her time period. She was tired of seeing the same thing among different authors, so her literary work were meant to stand out from the rest.Sweat was a story of determination and oppression, with religion and strength as the backbone of the story and seems to be one of the most captivating of all her works. The themes that help to represent abuse throughout this story is the title itself, the ways he treat her, and him seeing another women. In Hurston 's short story, "Sweat," the main character is Delia. She suffers from the main three types of abuse emotional, physical, and mental. The title “Sweat” represents the tears Delia was crying because of the abuse her husband Sykes gave her. Back in this time period it was common for a women to be submissive to …show more content…
When Delia had stood up for herself after an argument, Sykes got into to bed and threatened that, '[he] oughter mash [her] in [her] mouf fuh drawing dat skillet [on him]. '; Only having been married a few months so far he gave her the first beating of their marriage. Many people who live in town knew of her abused but never did anything about it. A gentleman from the town had made a comment about the way Sykes been abusing Delia, '[Sykes] done beat [Delia] 'nough tuh kill three women. '; Even though many people did not do nothing to help Delia out, they still did not respect Sykes because he beat Delia and he was trying to bribe the wives of the town with presents. Him doing this was his guilty conscious telling him he was wrong, but not willing to accept that he was wrong. Consequently there is one more form of abuse that Delia suffered from her