Women In Their Eyes Were Watching God

Women in the Eyes of Society For centuries women have been considered delicate and have been looked down upon by men. In books and movies women are treated like children and work animals. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and in the movie The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg, originally written by Alice Walker, women are not treated like equals but as an inferior being. These stories present stereotypical women that stay at home and are mindless compared to men. Janie Crawford and Celie Harris are women who are dictated by the men in their lives and told what to do by the same men, but deep down they have their own dreams and outcomes for life. Women have always been judged throughout history whether
Even though, the only reason that Tea Cake beat her is because he was jealous, it shows the small amount of respect women get from their husbands. This also shows that men treat their wives as property because they want them to know that they are in control at all times. In The Color Purple, men think of Celie as ugly and worthless, especially her husband Albert Johnson. Albert beats her to show her that he is more powerful and that she should do what he wants her to do, he also uses her as his personal slave. He says to her that women shouldn’t talk back to men because women have always been inferior to men. In spite of the fact that both women were told they were inferior by the men in their lives, Celie’s life was harder because people always put her down by calling her ugly and worthless, while Janie was called beautiful all the time and at least had some self
Janie’s first husband, Logan, told her she was supposed to do what he wanted her to do. He told her that he was going to make her work in the fields, not just inside the house, “Come help me move dis manure pile befo’ de sun gits hot. You don’t take a bit of interest in dis place. ‘Tain’t no use in foolin’ round dat kitchen all day long” (31). He wants her to do what he says even though it’s not fair to Janie. He wants her to be able to work in the kitchen and in the fields. Logan wants her to do twice the work he does because he thinks that marrying her was a favor for her grandmother, and she should be grateful and help him. Joe wants Janie to class off because she was more beautiful than the other women. In addition, he wanted her to be better because she was the wife of the mayor, but he wanted Janie to work in his store despite her not wanting to. When Janie was with Tea Cake he let do what she wanted. When they first got to the Everglades she stayed home, cooking and cleaning. But she wanted to be with Tea Cake and he told her that she could come work with him. While Janie is with Tea Cake she works a working class job, picking beans in the Everglades, she enjoys this more than classing herself off. In The Color Purple, Celie does what Albert wants her to do, he wants her to be in the kitchen, and to be a stepmom to the children he had with