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Theme Of Honesty In The Tragedy Of God By Zora Neale

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Secondly, although one may have a good honesty with the individual they are betrothed to without honesty with the self, one can never truly develop and keep cognizant the purpose of the wedlock in question, due to inner turmoil and strife. Firstly, this can been seen in the first marriage that Janie has as exemplified by the following, “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead,so she became a woman.” (Hurston. 25) This shows denial of self as she married solely due to the societal pressure and not because she knew herself well enough to know that she truly had a spiritual connection with Logan Killiks. This means that she married falsely. This is ultimately fatal to the marriage because in not knowing herself, how could Janie truly know how to love another human being with every fiber of herself? …show more content…

Due to the fact of being able to love in the most pure sense of the word she is not able to reciprocate the love that society wants her to show and ends up very cold and distant as a result of this. Dishonesty to the self further hampers her own growth and the image of a true wedlock is murdered due to the lack of ability to love oneself, since it is arguably the most pure form of love that exists. Although Janie is eventually able to understand herself after travelling to the convention of her life, it is Nora Helmer who figures out that honesty with the self is the only path to a true wedlock. “Helmer: But I will believe in it. Tell me! So changed that-?/ Nora: That our life together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye.” (Ibsen. 82) Nora has truly found herself and realizes that the entire marriage between herself and Torvald has been a

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