The Voyage Out Analysis

Rather than a nuanced vision of a romantic quest, Hurston’s Their eyes were watching God presents a darker disillusionment of love, through the construction of the southern context and a coming of age. Tribulation of women and the male desire for dominance is a theme that resonates within Hurston’s novel and is a reflection of the

A Voyage Long And Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist, Janie, and her husband for a respectable portion of her life, Jody Starks, seek courtship for entirely different reasons. Janie pursues sexual and emotional fulfillment as she journeys to the horizon and to a place of limitless possibility, while the male domineering Jody Starks seeks only after power, control, and a good place in society. These dramatic differences in ideals of love are the source of conflict between Janie and Jody and utterly shift Janie’s understanding of freedom and what it means to be free. Their different outlooks also lead to their downfall as a couple,

The hotel is a place away from home where we can spend time relaxing and take a break from our usual lives. Such an environment is unique and distinctive from one at home for most and is described by Jennifer M Volland as a place where, “an individual's inner and outer lives [can] collide head-on.” (Volland 16). This conflict between our inner and outer personalities is dubbed by Carl Jung as, “the persona...and, the shadow” (Volland 15), which are usually kept in, “separate drawers and are never confronted with one another” (Volland 15). Only in the hotel are these personalities allowed to integrate which can lead us to, “better ourselves, to try on new identities, to partake in the unthinkable, to tap into the unconscious.” (Volland 16). Such is the case for David Foster Wallace, in his essay, “Shipping Out”, where he attends a luxury cruise vacation and documents his experience aboard the ship. Throughout the essay, we are able to bear witness to Wallace’s persona that he displays to other passengers and how his inner shadow is then manifests itself and hijacks his experience aboard the cruise. The cruise ship itself is by no means free of blame here as it facilitates the mixing of the shadow and persona as it encourages passengers to bring it out and feeds their inner desires whatever they may be. Through both Jung’s idea of the persona and shadow and Volland’s idea that hotels tap into the subconscious; we are able to understand how the vacation influences both these

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, love plays a pivotal role in the life of the protagonist, Janie. Janie is exposed early in life to all the facets of love. From an early point in the novel until the very end, Janie searches for a man to fulfill her childhood concept of love. It is through this search for love that Janie finds the confidence and security in herself to become independent. Therefore, Janie’s quest to find love is not only a fulfillment of a childhood dream, but also a journey to find who she really is.

In conclusion, In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston, the audience watches Janie enter a period of self-discovery. When Janie gains this power of freedom, she realizes she craves something different from what society had told her she would want; What we feel inwardly to be true, society seeks to take that truth away. With this experience an internal and external

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is a light skinned women who is trying to look for love. Her Grandmother, arranges her marriage with Logan, which ends up failing because it lacked true love. Then, Janie marries Jody, which ends in a divorce because of Jody’s controlling personality. Finally, she finds the love of her life Tea Cake, and lives a happy life. The role of violence in this novel is very important. The way Janie’s husbands treat her effects their relationship. Janie wants to be with a man who treats her equally, and with respect. She does not want to be controlled, which is the reason why she left her other marriages. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston conveys the message that the purpose of violence is to gain control and power.

Zora Hurston focuses on many themes throughout her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, one of them being the development of gender roles. While it may seem that the novel is a story of one woman discovering herself on her own, an underlying theme is how people’s identities are determined by their relationships. Through a multitude of relationships in the novel Hurston develops the different roles of men and women within a relationship. In Zora Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston emphasizes the development of gender roles to suggest that society views the people involved based on the role they play in their various relationships.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s ultimate desire is to find the perfect marriage with a man she loves. However, the desires of her community hinder her ability to find love. In the novel, Hurston uses the motif of the horizon – characterized as a place where ships with “every man’s wish on board” (1) sails – to symbolize ambitions and desires, and she uses the motif of the road to represent the journey it takes to achieve one’s dreams. Through the symbolism of the motifs, Hurston expresses the vanity of materialistic desires, the value of living life, the impact people have on each other’s dreams.

Diane von Furstenberg once said, “I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.” In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the recurring motif illustrates the struggle of the protagonist, the wide-eyed Janie Crawford, who strives to become a woman on her own terms. Janie is a young woman left to live with her grandmother Nanny, a woman whose existence has been shaped not only by slavery but by terrible experiences with the worst of humanity. Janie must overcome the judgement and corroding influence of others in order to wholeheartedly find her true self. Zora Neale Hurston illustrates Janie’s internal battle to decide between independence, in which sexuality is the key to the road to freedom, and Nanny’s opposing dream of stability through the symbols of a mule and references to nature.

Model Amber Valletta wrote, “We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.” A major element of someone’s personality is due to their environment or past events of their lives. Janie Crawford is certainly not an exception. This is the story of Janie’s Pursuit for love where she, a widowed woman, unfolds her story to her friend Pheoby at dinner. She talks about her childhood with Nanny and The Washburns, her relationships with Logan Killicks and Joe Starks or Jody, her experiences with them along with events that took place while being with them or in relation to them, how they affected her mentality, and how she grows up and matures throughout her life to the self-reliant woman telling the story. In The Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the struggles in Janie’s problematic relationships with Logan and Joe impacted her, which gave her more and more experiences to gradually building up to the independent woman she is in the beginning of the story.

‘Castaway ‘, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a 2001 film starring Tom Hanks. Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx delivery man whose life is headed in the ‘right direction’, until his plane crashes and he is stranded on an island. He must adapt to his new life on the island; overcoming many obstacles in order to survive. ‘Castaway’ explores three different journeys; physical, inner and imaginative. Chuck Noland is a filmic representation of the philosophy of time equals money equals fulfilment. Zemeckis is deliberate in his obvious manipulation of the responder as he uses a multitude of filmic techniques to create a connection between the audience and Chuck.

When the narrator first encounters the girl, his friend's older sister, he can only see her silhouette in the “light from the half-opened door”. This is the beginning of his infatuation with the girl. After his discovery, he is plagued by thoughts of the girl which make his daily obligations seem like “ugly, monotonous, child's play”. He has become blinded by the light. The narrator not only fails to learn the name of his “girl”, he does not realize that his infatuation with a woman considerably older than himself is not appropriate. He relishes in his infatuation, feeling “thankful [he] could see so little” while he thinks of the distant “lamp or lighted window” that represents his girl. The narrator is engulfed by the false light that is his futile love.

of a woman; a female who the author encountered. This encounter lead him to visualize a

We expect the daily hire rates to increase from 2001 to 2002, but then to decrease overall in the long term based on the assessment of the consulting firm. The consulting firm based their forecast on higher demand in iron ore shipments. They claim demand in iron ore shipments has historically shown a strong correlation with charter rates, and we believe this makes sense. Vessel size, distance of route, and demand for ore/coal are drivers of daily rates.