Outside Reading Form/Structure Plot: Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, dances around Janie Crawford’s endeavor to aspire to her dreams and pursue happiness in her life. The novel is a narration of Janie Crawford’s progression through life, with the use of extended flashbacks presented through friend Pheoby and is organized in a timely matter. Although the beginning starts off with Janie being old and stuff, the next pages goes back to Janie’s life from where she was born and how she got to the place she was sitting now. The novel focuses on Janie’s relationships and thoughts as she travels in the search for love, freedom and happiness. The novel begins when Janie starts to tell her life story to her best friend
Paul Comaskey World literature Professor Chisunka In the classic novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Hurston, Hurston has given unique distinctions on how three different men treat Janie and the effectiveness this will bring throughout Janie’s journey of life. Janie’s grandmother raised her as she grew into a woman. Nanny sparks Janie’s journey, to insure that she receives financial stability through marriage and she will not end up like her mother. Through the novel Janie wants independence but Nanny had different plans for Janie too marry right away. These three men Zora Hurston labels, play an enormous role in Janie’s life long pursuit for independence and to truly find herself.
In essence she is a dictator and takes advantage of the other workers, and the patients. Nurse Ratched humiliates the poor patients, which makes them lose faith in humanity, and lose their dignity. They no longer feel like they are men because during the therapy meetings she always makes them talk about topics that are reasons for why their life is horrible. During the therapy
Janie’s sexual identity emerges from an exploration of her own desires: her discovery of sexual feelings is not prompted by the presence of a man; and the acquisition of her “voice” emerges from the creation, in the field of her desire, of egalitarian dialogue with a man 3. Janie achieves female autonomy in two stages: first from dominance by her “mother,” then from dominance by her three husbands 4. Janie entrusts her story, for transmission, to another woman: i.e., the person who possesses the “same” socially-situated knowledge (what Woolf calls “thinking in common”) Let me illustrate the “female-centered” elements of Janie’s “education” in Their Eyes Were Watching God,” which can be quickly summarized. First, the transmission of a sense of purpose and social possibility is transmitted from mother to daughter. The main character, Janie, recognizes that what she tropes as the “horizon” of possibility in her life has been established by the
In early stage, Jack’s affection for Fran is merely manifested through his obsession and fondness in her hair, such that “he might stop loving her if she [cuts] it” (334). The fact that Jack and Fran are isolated from the society furthermore reveals and suggests the difference in attitudes between the couples. However, in contrast, what Bud values are sentimentalism; Bud accepts and embraces any imperfections his loved ones have, such as Olla’s “most crooked, jaggedy teeth in
In the novel, Hester likes to help out others as in serving the poor and giving them clothing. To me she takes a lot of time tending to other people and never has time to think about herself. She is stuck in a "hole" that she cant get out of because of the harsh behavior she has gone thorough, especially with her fathers sexism. And to think all of these characteristics play in to what kind of person she is, she has become, and who she will be. Another important character is Arthur Dimmesdale.
Gradually, the reader learns that Mary has always been neglected, and that her behaviour is somehow dependant on this lack of love. Mary’s ‘healing’ in turn prompts the healing process in other people around her: not only Colin, but also Mr Craven and Ben Weatherstaff. They’re all like gardens: they’ve grown wild because their nature, unattended by the‘art’ of human love, has brought about ‘chaos’ 4 Mary, ‘miss quite contrary’ Mary’s ‘contrariness’ has two different connotations in the text. She is ‘contrary’: because of her disdainful disinterest in other people and of the irritability of her temper; because of a kind of emotional honesty, and of her intuitive reliance on her own judgement. The first kind of
When Lancelot is going to see the Lady of Shallot, she knows she is stepping into dangerous waters, but still goes along with it. Her image of herself turns so bad, that the basically kills herself and unhappy and lonely woman. After she is dead, Lancelot sees her and only says that “She has a lovely face,” demonstrating that he only cared about her looks and not really her inner beauty. The Lady of Shallot is a round character because she changes throughout the short story. At the beginning, she believes in herself and who she is as a person, but she is lonely.
The final line “Who could not say, ‘Tis pity she’s a whore?” can be seen as directed towards her and so she is blamed for everything that has occurred. Throughout the play she is seen as quite powerful and headstrong by refusing many marriage proposals and being quite stubborn in doing so. However, she is reduced to a weak being however upon dying which is a culmination of her passions. It is perceived that women are a danger to men and to society as a whole and so Giovanni’s actions are to be blamed not on himself, but on Annabella because of the beauty she possesses. Giovanni states that Annabella’s “lips would tempt a saint” thus showing the corruption her presence inflicts upon even the supposed innocent of men.
When Mrs. Mooney is observing Polly’s interactions with young men, she becomes frustrated that “none of [the men] meant business” and considers sending Polly back to her previous job (63). Mrs. Mooney is highly focused on her own aspirations, and therefore compromises her sense of empathy. Mrs. Mooney is a heavy influence on Polly’s actions. Mrs. Mooney acts as if she is unaware of Polly’s affair with Bob Doran; however, Mrs. Mooney and Polly share an unspoken understanding. Mrs. Mooney is the ringleader of Polly’s indecency, and manages Polly under implicit control.