Charlotte Temple And Their Eyes Were Watching God Similarities

Does Charlotte Temple share some similarities of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Tyler Perry’s Temptation.

Remember Charlotte was young inexperience woman pursued by an older man named, Montraville, an officer in the army. Although she (Charlotte) had reservations about him, she was moved by his charming love letters. She (Charlotte) runs off to America with him (Monteaville) in hopes that he will marry her. Charlotte parents misses her and wants her to return, but she does not at that time. However, Monteaville does not marry Charlotte because she didn’t come from a family of fortune and Montaeaville family would disapprove of her. Later, Charlotte, later finds out he (Monteaville) is having an affair with a young heiress named Julia. Monteaville never marry Charlotte and she feels bad because she left her parents for love. Rowson compared romantic relationships to financial dealings. In Charlotte Temple, her father (Mr. Temple) paid off her mother’s father (Mr. Eldridge) debt in order to marry Lucy, which was Charlotte’s mother.

In Tyler Perry’s Temptation, Judith is from a small country town and raised in church, she marries the only boy she knows since high school.

She (Judith) moves to a big city with her husband (Brice), where she hope to begin her career. Brice is a smart young man, with little finances and Judith wants more. Brice is conservative, simple, and inexperience in romance and their marriage is stale. So, Judith takes an internship job to help support the household and to work toward her dream of becoming a marriage counselor. At her job she (Judith) meets an older, charismatic, wealthy guy that is attractive to her (Judith). Judith denied his advantages until Judith succumbs to his charms, left her husband and had an affair with him (Harley). Judith mother was hurt she left her husband and tried to get Judith to return home and come back to the church

family.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is raised by grandmother after her mother abandoned her. Janie grandmother, Nanny, loved Janie and was dedicated to her, but her (Nanny) life as a slave and experience with her own daughter, Janie’s mother, had damaged her mortality. Nanny wanted Janie to marry Janie as soon as possible to a husband who can provide security and social status for her(Janie). Janie is forced to marry an old farmer named Logan, which Janie said he looks like an old fish-head. Logan owner land and farmed animals and mules, which was considered wealthy. After Janie moved with Logan she was unhappy and miserable. He treated her like pack mule and was unromantic. Then an ambitious, smooth talking man named Joe Starks strolls down the road that Janie and Logan lived on. Janie and Joe met and casually flirted with one another then Janie runs off with Joe and marries him. Joe and Janie travel to all the black Eatonville located in Georgia. Later Joe becomes a politician, then a mayor, a storekeeper, and the biggest landlord in the town of Eastonville, which allow Janie to live a good life with financial stability and be a wife to a man of substance.