Is Janie the hero or the maiden? The maiden archetype is a person whose traits and actions reflect purity‚ innocence‚ and naïveté. The maiden is normally somebody’s love interest and she represents what her partner values most. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel‚ There Eyes Were Watching God‚ Janie embodies purity‚ innocence and naivete. Janie first shows representation of purity through her spiritual connection with nature. Janie takes solace in her ability to relish in the organic sanctuaries of
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cheat‚ to look into an eye that recognizes me for what I am!’” (148) Hester and Dimmesdale meet at the forest and have a conversation. Dimmesdale has been lying to the church officials and to the townspeople for the sin he has committed for seven years. To the townspeople‚ he is a respectable minister loved by everyone‚ but in reality‚ he is a sinner. Provided that‚ Dimmesdale feels relief speaking to Hester. “’We are not‚ Hester‚ the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted
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jealousy of her beauty and social mobility. They make snide comments about Janie having left town in satin and returning in overalls‚ having left with a young man and returning alone‚ etc. Pheoby‚ Janie’s best friend‚ defends Janie‚ saying that she’s never done anything to hurt anybody. Pheoby leaves to take Janie some supper‚ their banter establishes that they’ve been good friends for a long time and that they trust each other. Janie is sure that she’s being gossiped about‚
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dreams. Oftentimes that means finding what we truly want by having it taken away. Janie is introduced as a naive young girl looking more for love than a future. As a woman‚ however‚ Janie’s test becomes having her expression‚ independence‚ and romantic goals pushed in her marriage with Jody. Seemingly the perfect opportunity for true love‚ the relationship that comes from their marriage does not amount to what Janie finds she truly desired. The gentle nature of Janie’s character is revealed in the
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This questions power dynamics within the novel. There is an ongoing motif of attempting to tame Janie for her own good. This is first presented with Nanny‚ who marries Janie off after‚ ‘Johnny Taylor [was] lacerating her Janie with a kiss.’ Through the choice of the word ‘lacerating’‚ Hurston connects the act of kissing‚ to whipping. To lacerate‚ means to tear or make deep cuts; this definition starkly contrasts the soft and vulnerable nature of a kiss. The delineation resonates with Nanny recounting
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Although Janie is dealing with a number of issues throughout the book‚ racism is not one of the things she struggles with. When Janie was very young and impressionable as people at that age tend to be‚ she was constantly around white people. Living among them for most of her youth‚ she was probably around them more than those who most resembled her. Since she had been around friendly people all her youth‚ she was not exposed to the harsh discrimination that went on beyond her and could hardly realize
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Joe and Janie engaged in many conversations throughout their time together. One day‚ they get into an argument. The argument resulted in the fact that Janie could not find any pig’s feet for a customer. Janie has told Joe that she ordered a whole keg of pig’s feet the day before but when the customer went to get some‚ there wasn’t any left. Joe then asked Janie where the bill for the pig’s feet was. Janie replied that it’s either on the nail or on his desk. Joe said that it was in neither places
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finish and Janie did just that. At first she didn’t know what she was doing ‚but she kept believing and eventually it all came to her. She had to grow up fast and she wasn’t ready to grow up herself. Janie int through so much just to find love‚ and love wasn’t the only thing she got. When she had to fight through three husbands to find it‚ it was worth it. Through out the story Janie goes through emotional‚ spiritual‚ and physical changes with her three husbands. What changes does Janie go through
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Hester was an interesting character in the Scarlet letter. She soon meets a man named Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale is also an interesting man. Some things differ with the two. They are alike and different in many ways. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale shared similarities and differences. Hester and Dimmesdale are alike in many ways. These two are two of the main characters in the scarlet letter. Hester and Dimmesdale both act like cowards; they seem to both be punished by someone
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what do the Puritan women say about Hester before she comes out of the prison? What does this show us about the Puritan society? 4. In Chapter 2‚ what two things serve as symbols of Hester’s adultery? The letter A on her chest and her daughter pearl. 5. What did Hester Prynne have to do as punishment when she came out of the prison‚ besides wear the scarlet letter? She had to stand on the scaffold for public humiliation. 6. Describe Hester Prynne’s appearance? Tall‚ deep black
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