How Does Janie's Use Of Voice In Their Eyes Were Watching God

In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" written by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie the protagonist is seen by critics as having no voice. For all women silence knows no boundaries of race or culture, and Janie is no exception. Hurston characterizes Janie with the same silence that women at that time & period were forced into, (complete submission.) "Women were to be seen and not heard." Janie spends forty years of her life, learning to achieve/find, her voice against the over-ruling and dominate men in her life. But in the end Janie comes out the victor, breaking the silence. In her essay "What do Feminist Critics Want?" Gilbert states, "Like Wagner's master singers....men had the power of speech,[but]....women

In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, the protagonist, tells the story of her ascension to adulthood and several of the lessons she learned along the way. Though married three times, her second marriage to Joe Starks had the most formative impact on her transition to maturity. Given that Joe played such a crucial role in this affair, we can classify him as a type of parent to Janie. Later, after her final marriage, Janie reflects on her life and is at peace. By that point, she came to realize how to be truly happy.

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie has allowed us to better understand the restraints that women in society had to deal with in a male dominated society. Her marriage with Logan Killicks consisted of dull, daily routines.  Wedding herself to Joe Starks brought her closer to others, than to herself.  In her final marriage to Vergible Woods, also known as Tea Cake, she finally learned how to live her life on her own.  In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie suffered through many difficult situations that eventually enabled her to grow into an independent person.

People grow and develop at different rates. The factors that heavily influence a person's growth are heredity and environment. The people you meet and the experiences you have are very important in what makes a person who he/she is. Janie develops as a woman with the three marriages she has. In each marriage she learns precious lessons, has increasingly better relationships, and realizes how a person is to live his/her life. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie's marriages to Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake are the most vital elements in her growth as a woman.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist Janie Crawford has experienced and had interactions with the nature around her. These interactions symbolised Janie’s quest for love, her own independence and personal freedom through each endeavor. Janie’s quest for her womanhood was directly influenced by the natural environment around her. For instance, the novel states that Janie “Saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a blossom” (11).

Often in literature, the author sets the main character on a physical journey to divert attention away from the main character’s spiritual journey. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, Janie, goes on a physical journey that not only challenges her sense of self, but also is vital in her life-long spiritual journey to personal liberation and self-empowerment. Janie’s relationships mark Janie’s migration toward fulfilling Hurston’s purpose of the piece: Janie becoming empowered and finds personal liberation. Hurston proves Janie’s physical journey plays a central role as Janie completes her spiritual quest to personal liberation and self-empowerment.

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, many critics have argued over whether or not the main character, Janie, finds her voice by the end of the novel. Yet many seem to be confused as to what her "voice" is. Her voice is her ability to express her thoughts and display her emotions verbally. Many relate the question of Janie’s voice to her amount of emotional strength (her ability to confront her problems or run away from the current situation rather than be isolated in it), yet these things are a completely different matter entirely. While Janie’s emotional strength varies throughout the novel, her voice is always there.

Early in the text of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston employs imagery and syntax to show Janie uncovering the growth and power she has over her own life. This sort of revelation comes to Janie as Hurston describes that “It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown seems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy

The world of Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God was one of oppression and disappointment. She left the world of her suffocating grandmother to live with a man whom she did not love, and in fact did not even know. She then left him to marry another man who offered her wealth in terms of material possessions but left her in utter spiritual poverty. After her second husband's death, she claims responsibility and control of her own life, and through her shared love with her new husband, Teacake, she is able to overcome her status of oppression. Zora Neale Hurston artfully and effectively shows this victory over oppression throughout the book through her use of

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God author Zora Neale Hurton's uses a wide or rhetorical devices to express the way Janie's life has been going through some ratical changes lately and people have been noticing. In the first paragraph of this excerpt Janie is described as being "all dressed in blue! It was a shame," Janie being dressed in blue is very symbolic because since her husband died Janie had only been seen in black and white, the way the town expected her to. So for her to be wearing colors must mean she is done mourning.

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie fights for her own expectations “We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves” by Brian Tracy. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie, the main character, fights for her rights and her expectations instead of listening to those around her. Nanny expected Janie to get married to someone who has money, land, and protect her. This is true in four main ways.

In “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie is constantly judged and defined by her physical characteristics. Janie’s most prominent characteristic is her long, beautiful hair, symbolizing her self worth and uniqueness, both of which are challenged throughout the novel. The porch women and Janie’s own husband, Joe, judge her jealously. Janie is challenged by these judgements, because she rarely speaks up, but her distinctive hair is her way of expressing herself. Janie struggles to maintain her self confidence, and her hair is a symbol of that struggle. When Joe tries to control how Janie wears her hair, he is really trying to control her. The porch women criticize her hair with the goal of validating their own jealousy.

In the story “Their Eyes were watching God” Janie establishes her own independence of the death of Joe, as she decides to takes off her head rags and burn them all as she wore her long thick braid. Nevertheless, Janie fines herself interested in Tea Cake because she feels she can talk and laugh with him and enjoy life . What Tea Cake had to offer Janie was her freedom to be herself and to have her own identity. However, people in town begin to gossip because they were upset and thought it was too soon after Joe’s death for the mayor’s wife to spend her time hanging out with Tea Cake. Furthermore, the significance of the statement “So us is goin off somewhere and start all over in Tea Cake way”. “Dis ain't no business proposition, and no race

The Qualities That Janie Depict As A Mature Woman Human development is a cultural process that expands people's freedom, opportunity and improve their well-being. It is a process that generations revise and adapt in to human cultural. Personal fulfillment is one of those developments that is adapted into in to all human culture but it depends on the human’s relationship with nature. Zora Neale Hurston addresses human development problems in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Their Eyes Were Watching God was a book that presented the world with a new look on writing novels. Zora Neale Hurston’s experience in what she has seen through research was embodies in this novel. She demonstrates what data she has collected and intertwined it into the culture within the novel. While being a folklorist/anthropologist, and inspired by her life experiences, she developed a character who dealt with the issues that were not yet uncovered, female empowerment was one of them. Zora Neale Hurston defined this topic of female empowerment throughout the character Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God.