Their Eyes Were Watching God Essay

are and have been indoctrinated with the underlying assumption that their future happiness is equivalent, or essentially, belongs to the condition of their future marriage with their spouse. American women, similar to Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God, are indirectly influenced to believe that achieving the highest form of self-contentment means committing themselves to another fully in the promise of marriage. This mindset causes women to fantasize about needing a man’s proposal to…

Their Eyes Were Watching God In Their Eyes Were Watching God, one of the authors motif was community. Janie talks about the different communities she has lived in. The theme/idea of the community has different styles and ideas. Every community in this story had a variety of forms of thinking and their actions are different. To begin with, the first community where Janie first arrived, was full of envy towards her. “They sat in judgment, seeing the women as she was, made them remember the envy…

The very first page of the book “Their eyes were watching God” would be more fitting as the final narrative of the book instead of the introduction because it ties everything together in the book. It can be described as sort of a preluding to the events that are about to take place. In the first paragraph Janie describe the differences in the dreams of Men and women. In which it describes as men always watchers of the horizon over the sea always looking for their boat to take them there. While…

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, there is a lot of symbolism, used especially to represent feelings, thoughts, points of view and even the own lives of the main characters. Janie's life was often related and compared to a mule's life, because she was a hard-working, oppressed and mistreated woman for much of her life. The first time Janie's life was related to a mule's, was when her grandmother, Nanny, explained to her: "De nigger woman is de mule uh the world so fur as Ah can…

Forged in Mother Nature Topic #3 Explore how Hurston uses elements of nature as a metaphor for Janie’s Life Life often sends the individual on a journey to achieve what the heart desires. In Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Janie embarks on a trip to discover her sexual desires, independence, and overall contentment. Throughout her life she is repeatedly compared to multiple aspects of nature. For Janie, nature is a metaphorical representation for various experiences…

In the novel, the metaphor of the horizon is used to describe the dreams of Janie on her way to discover her true self. Their Eyes Were Watching God starts off by talking about dreams. The dreams “sail forever on the horizon” (1). Some people can never reach their dreams. Janie reaches her dream of finding meaningful love, but hers is “mocked to death by Time" (1). It was not until Janie was forty, divorced and widowed, that she finally found the true love she was dreaming of since she was…

Marriage Defining Who You Are In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God the main character Janie Crawford starts her story as a flashback. She is returning from her final marriage with Tea Cake her husband who she had to kill because he was paranoid from having rabies. While heading back into her home town Eatonville, Florida after being gone from a long absence she overhears people talking her first husband Tea Cake and the rags she is wearing. “Marriage is viewed as a sign of maturity for some…

Since men see women beneath them, they think they have the power to control women and limit their voices; they leave women without a way to speak up for themselves. Even though it takes Janie, Zora Neale Hurston’s main character in Their Eyes Were Watching God, almost two marriages to find her voice, she discovers the power of words and the meaning of self-respect through others belittling her and making her feel worthless. Because Janie is only sixteen, she does not understand what marriage…

The roles of women in Their Eyes Were Watching God vary and are very interesting in chapter one through six. In the beginning, Nanny tell how men were able to take the innocence, sexually, from women. Nanny was raped by her slave owner, and then she had her baby daughter. She then was abused by the slave owner’s wife when she saw the complexion of the baby and knew it was her husbands’. Nanny was able to escape without being killed herself and having her baby taken away. Nanny’s daughter,…

To achieve a dream is to achieve your horizon. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston introduced readers to the value of the horizon by the main character in the book Janie who played a role in achieving her horizon. Janie was on a search for her horizon, yet during that search came a journey filled with many obstacles. Janie went through a few obstacles to reach her horizon to the point she ended up having hate towards her Nanny and Joe Starks for trying to take the horizon away…