Freedom and Achievement of Janie In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston

Freedom and Achievement of Janie In Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Hurston actual concept, In Their Eyes Were Watching God was to explain the love demand of an African American Character called Janie. According to the Webster Dictionary, freedom before the 12th century was observed as the lack of requirement, pressure, or control in choice of action. . Hurston has formed the word which defines the traditional character of Black women in the 1940s. Though it is confusing as the Southern language in which most of the book is written may appear, such as using sentences like “ I done told u before”, with this, Hurston was still able to pass her message of love, freedom and satisfaction or achievement ( Hurston 9). In Hurston’s In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie was expected to be made known as a black woman who had no voice of her own but along the book; she was shown to be an individual who was not contended with herself. Janie shows her chase of love, encounters in different relationships based on imprisonment, control, independence and fulfillment. Janie’s incredible search for voice and autonomy starts under the pear tree. The pear tree represents the standard of Janie’s emotional accomplishment in the novel (Berridge 8). Nanny decides to marry Janie off to Logan Killicks after seeing Janie kiss Johnny Taylor. Nanny says, “Yeah, Janie, youse got yo’ womanhood on yuh. So Ah moutez well tel yuh whut Ah been savin’ up for uh spell. Ah wants you married right away. (Hurston 12)” Nanny thinks marrying Janie off to Logan is the best way to protect her. At first, Janie disagrees with Nanny’s decision, she declares, “Me married? Naw, Nanny, no ma’aam” (12). After a bit of grumbling, naive Janie accepts to marry Logan Killick...

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...all need to take action and responsibilities of our own choice below any kind of situation we might be under because it will make us glad, it certainly worth it.

Janie eventually attains what she has spent forty years searching for--her voice, and her identity. The only voice Janie had in her marriage to Killicks was to throw down her apron and walk out the door (Racine 9). While with Joe Starks, she allows herself to live a dual life--one in which her body contributes and another in which her thoughts wonders boundlessly. In Janie's marriage to Tea Cake, she gains the freedom and the self-identity she has been searching for. By killing Tea Cake, Janie selects herself over the dominant society of men (Holloway 43). In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston suggests to her readers that Black men and women have been controlled by white society.