From the beginning of time, men and women have always had this slight inequality between them. Men were always looked upon as the “bread winners” and women were seen as the “housewives”. Women were also frowned upon if they did anything that seemed fit for a man only. As a whole, women had no rights and no voice at all. The fascinating book by Zora Neale Hurston called “Their eyes were watching God”, relates to this very feeling of women not having a say so and being ruled by their husband, this is called feminism associated with the feminist theory. Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse. In other words, it aims to understand the nature of gender inequality while examining women’s roles in
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As Janie travels through her journey, she finds this confidence that she always searched for. From marrying the “right” man to the man who was right for her, she beings to find her confidence and break away from the typical southern woman traits. From the very beginning, when Nanny held her back from reaching out and enjoying life, to when she was coming back into town, she has learned that opinions do not matter and she has learned to ignore the tradition of women being a mule to their husband; the “traditional” woman image was gone. When she comes back into town they immediately bash her, “What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on? Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in”(Pg.2), Janie shows that she is finally who she wants to be, and a free natural woman. As the woman continuously judges her, she ignores them. She can no longer bare to be what society wants her to be and shows that clearly by the way she wears her hair down and by the way she dresses. In relation to feminism, this topic goes hand in hand with how women are looked at if they don’t dress a certain way, they are judged and discriminated against, “She sits high, but she looks low. Dat's …show more content…
Her voice represents her freedom and ability to speak, as well as her empowerment and justice as a woman. With two of her three husbands, and even with Nanny, Janie is unable to find her voice; she has no right of free will or freedom of speech. Nanny did not want to hear her opinions or neither did she want to hear what Janie wanted out of life, she wanted Janie to live by her rules so that she doesn’t end up like her mother; she was silenced. With Jody is was the same thing, “Janie loved the conversation and sometimes she thought up good stories on the mule, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge. He didn't want her talking after such trashy people”(Pg. 53), even though she wanted to make conversation with the town’s people, Jody refused to let her have a voice and she didn’t want that. She would rather voice in with them than to make it seem like she was above them as the mayor’s wife. “But he done showed me where it's de thought dat makes de difference in ages. If people thinks de same they can make it all right. So in the beginnin' new thoughts had tuh be thought and new words said. After Ah git used tuh dat, we gits 'long jus' fine. He done taught me de maiden language all over”(Pg. 115), after the death of Jody, Janie is able to bring her voice back to life and even Tea Cake was able to expand her voice and make it louder than ever before. “The distinctive
As Janie travels through her journey, she finds this confidence that she always searched for. From marrying the “right” man to the man who was right for her, she beings to find her confidence and break away from the typical southern woman traits. From the very beginning, when Nanny held her back from reaching out and enjoying life, to when she was coming back into town, she has learned that opinions do not matter and she has learned to ignore the tradition of women being a mule to their husband; the “traditional” woman image was gone. When she comes back into town they immediately bash her, “What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on? Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in”(Pg.2), Janie shows that she is finally who she wants to be, and a free natural woman. As the woman continuously judges her, she ignores them. She can no longer bare to be what society wants her to be and shows that clearly by the way she wears her hair down and by the way she dresses. In relation to feminism, this topic goes hand in hand with how women are looked at if they don’t dress a certain way, they are judged and discriminated against, “She sits high, but she looks low. Dat's …show more content…
Her voice represents her freedom and ability to speak, as well as her empowerment and justice as a woman. With two of her three husbands, and even with Nanny, Janie is unable to find her voice; she has no right of free will or freedom of speech. Nanny did not want to hear her opinions or neither did she want to hear what Janie wanted out of life, she wanted Janie to live by her rules so that she doesn’t end up like her mother; she was silenced. With Jody is was the same thing, “Janie loved the conversation and sometimes she thought up good stories on the mule, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge. He didn't want her talking after such trashy people”(Pg. 53), even though she wanted to make conversation with the town’s people, Jody refused to let her have a voice and she didn’t want that. She would rather voice in with them than to make it seem like she was above them as the mayor’s wife. “But he done showed me where it's de thought dat makes de difference in ages. If people thinks de same they can make it all right. So in the beginnin' new thoughts had tuh be thought and new words said. After Ah git used tuh dat, we gits 'long jus' fine. He done taught me de maiden language all over”(Pg. 115), after the death of Jody, Janie is able to bring her voice back to life and even Tea Cake was able to expand her voice and make it louder than ever before. “The distinctive