Creativity In Roger Rosenblatt's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In Roger Rosenblatt’s article named “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, he correctly states that Logan and Jody both have lives that lack imagination and desire. Rosenblatt states that what Jody and Logan “offer is a variety of death: passionless lives lacking any sense of creativity”(31). This is saying that throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jody and Logan are unemotional and they are unoriginal. Rosenblatt is able to convey this message through the use of his words in his article. “Passionless” is one of the words that help display his opinion in an excellent way. Then, the denotation of “passionless” is lacking strong emotion or unemotional. In the same way, nothingness, emptiness, and drained are all types of feelings that the word passionless portrays. The feelings that “passionless” conveys is able to …show more content…
The denotation of “creativity” is the use of the imagination or original ideas. Similarly, the feeling that “creativity” conveys is imaginative, joyus, and cheerful. Even though this word has a positive connotation to it on it’s own, the way that Rosenblatt uses the word “creativity” takes it and gives it a negative feel to it once it is incorporated into the whole sentence. This is because he added”passionless” which has a very negative connotation that is attached to it. Then, in result, it gives “creativity: a negative feeling to it. Additionally, the denotative meaning of “creativity” is the use of the imagination or original ideas. This is showing that Rosenblatt was displaying that Jody and Logan both were unable to have original ideas or an imagination throughout the novel, which resulting in them using others ideas or a variation of them in someway. In all, Rosenblatt is able to show in his article “Their Eyes Were Watching God” that in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, displays Logan and Jody to have no emotion and a lack of