character we have been introduced to has had a diffrent types of agency. The two extremes being Janie from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jack Worthing from the Importance of Being Earnest. Agency is a big thing that defines both characters even though they are two characters who are opposite of each other. Janie has a lack of agency throughout most of Their Eyes Were Watching God and regains it later in life. Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest might just have the most agency in the world
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a coming-of-age novel that shows the transformation of main character, Janie Crawford, from an immature teenage girl to a fully grown woman. In the story, Janie tells her friend Pheoby about her numerous and tiresome adventures that lead her to feeling fulfilled with her life. Over the course of her life Janie marries three men and they all have a profound effect on her. Janie's values and personality are shaped
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For some readers, Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God falls short of challenging the outdated societal views of the 1930s in any meaningful way. However, for many other people, it has clear value as a piece of literature that explores sexism and racism through symbolism and the characters’ actions. Hurston utilizes language in her novel as a symbol of the power, or lack of power, that certain groups of people held in society during the 1930s. In some sections of the book, this
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Vocabulary: “Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise-a heaven of straight haired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned white seraphs” Seraphs-an angel of the first order “Five or six men left the porch to surround the fractious beast” (Pg 56) Fractious- difficult to control “According to all Jane had been taught, this was sacrilege so she sat without speaking at all” Sacrilege- blasphemous behaviour “The wind through the open windows had broomed
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The novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is extremely rich in dialect. Dialect is regional, and it consist of distinctive features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Hurston uses dialect to bring the story as well as the characters to life. The use of dialect makes the characters seem real; they are believable. As a reader to become familiar with the language, readers feel as if they were actually a part of the action. Early in the novel, Hurston tells her readers what to expect in the language
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When generating symbols for a novel that is completely filled with them, it is extremely difficult to choose two that are the most influential in the novel. Some different symbols in Their Eyes Were Watching God include the horizon, the pear tree, the gate, Janie’s hair, the mule, and the hurricane. In this analysis, I will be choosing the horizon and the hurricane that are the two most important symbols in the novel. Both of these symbols represent something that is more than the book itself and
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In my art piece for “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, I illustrated a close up of pear blossoms on a branch with a background of geometric swirling clouds. The pear blossom branch represents the idealized expectations of a fulfilled life many of the characters hold in the book. Janie Mae Crawford, starts out as a black girl in 1930’s Florida forced to marry Logan Killicks by her grandmother. Janie’s grandmother suffered the hardships and brutality of slavery, and she finds a fulfilled
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Death appears to be a major turning point In the Novel Their Eyes were Watching God death turns out to have a significant impact on a specific character; the protagonist rather, and from there on the character could experience significant changes in life. This is absolutely true because the protagonist leaves her first husband for a second husband Joe Starks and believes that he is the answer to the pear tree hoping that it will be someone that the Protagonist can love. She has three husbands in
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In the African- American community today, there is a lack of representation, along with voices that go unheard and unspoken. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, delves into the significance of silence, and the ways that the protagonist, Janie Crawford, has had her voice silenced. This resonates with many people of the Black community, who feel as though even with the progression we’ve made as a society, that their lives and struggles matter less than a white person’s. With movements
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ceases to think and feel for him. Janie is using imagery to show the reader visual images about her feelings of love and passion for Tea Cake. Throughout the relationship, Tea Cake showed Janie what love is about even through the hardships they both were still romantically involved with each other. He showered Janie with all that he could give to
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