Essay Comparing The Color Purple And Their Eyes Were Watching God

For almost every person it is quite natural to care or to be affected by the thoughts, feelings, and actions of other people. This is especially true when those other people are the ones that hold some sort of influence over them. So what happens when the ones with the most influence over someone chooses to be often times terrible? And what effect does that have on a person's life? In the two books The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main characters, Celie and Janie have their thoughts and feelings continually influenced by the men in their lives. The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston are considered classics for good reason both of them give an insight as to what it was like to be a black women in the south in the earlier half of the twentieth century. The Color Purple tells the story of Celie, a poor uneducated woman …show more content…
Both are powerful novels that not only gives the reader a chance to see a book written with a feminist and cultural perspective, but through the psychoanalytic lense. This is what keeps these books so interesting to read today. So many pieces considered “classics” are so dull whatever lense the author has used to write the book is completely lost on the reader. In the two novels the only thing that the reader might have to get used to is the language used. Moreover, people are always trying to figure out people. When situations are wrong it is almost like human nature to try and analyze why it is happening. That is the case in “The color Purple” and “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Two mistreated women, and the reader response might be to wonder why they put up with those men. Reading these novels through the psychoanalytic lense can help the reader understand some of the choices that characters make. In a sense, it gives