on an abusive marriage. Delia Jones‚ the protagonist in this story enters into a marriage of love only to have her husband change drastically two months later. When you read this story you can see several themes at work including good versus evil‚ hard work‚ marriage‚ oppression and karma. The central idea of this story demonstrates a good women’s struggle within her marriage against an evil‚ oppressive husband and how eventually her good karma wins out in the end. Delia Jones is an African American
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Hurston‚ the main character‚ Delia‚ is a hard working wife in Florida who makes ends meat from her job cleaning other peoples clothes. She is a very good women but her husband‚ Sykes‚ is always trying to pick fights with her and harasses her with more methods than one. He treats her with no respect what so ever and even has a girlfriend that Delia knows about on the side. Sykes complains frequently about the size of Delia ’s figure claiming that she is too skinny. One day Sykes captures a rattlesnake and
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relates to the statement because Delia Jones use to be emotionally and physically abused by her husband for 15 years. Sykes beat Delia threw out the years of their marriage‚ he also cheated on her and disrespected her and let his girl friend in his wife’s house‚ after year of abuse and struggling to live with a man like Sykes she finally stands up ‚ so when Sykes brings a snake home to kill Delia but failed and ended up killing his self emulate with the quote because Delia could have helped her husband
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The short story “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston tells a tale about Delia Jones and her husband Sykes. This tale tells of Delia’s troubles with Sykes and her ultimate independence from him. This story has prominent uses of many resources of language but the most prominent is the use of tone. The tone of this passage is created in a few different ways‚ and each adds to the overall emotionally charged tone. The use of language within this passage helps make the tone more authentic. The language
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Ware‚ Tyler J English 152 Professor Landon February 10‚ 2013 Essay 1 Religion & Sexism in “Sweat” When you think about women in the south in the 1920’s what comes to your mind first? Is it the hard work they did? Is it the fact that they were good family oriented women? Was it the way that they were self-sacrificing and took care of their husbands before themselves? Remembering the good can also come with some bad. Women in this time period had to go through many travesties‚
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Neale Hurston‚ an oppressed wife‚ Delia finally gets revenge from her husband Sykes. The end of the story is significant because after being abused by her husband for fifteen years Delia finally had enough and seeks revenge. Throughout the story Sykes shows no respect towards his wife‚ he always mistreats her‚ and does anything he can to ruin her day. For example‚ Sykes does not respect Delia’s work even though she works very hard to support to both of them. While Delia was sorting clothes‚ he yelled
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insanity. This was not unusual for women of this time; women were always cautioned against thinking on their own‚ even by their husbands. Sykes is very much like John in “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” but Sykes is more of a tormentor than a husband. He could care less about his wife. She was only good for her hard work‚ which paid the bills. All Sykes knew was that Delia lived in his house; and he wanted her out. However deeply one spouse hated the other‚ they would never allow the settlement of a divorce
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please her husband‚ keep the house looking nice‚ and take care of the kids‚ or she can work a full time job and support her family like the husband. However‚ just a few generations ago‚ society expected a husband to support his wife. In "Sweat‚" Delia‚ the protagonist‚ was constantly badgered by her husband. She survives years of his cruel treatment in a community that does nothing to help her. "Well‚ you better quit gittin `me riled up‚ else they’ll be totin’ you out sooner than you expect‚ Ah’m
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exquisite symbolism. Delia often brings home a pile of clothes from work to wash. These clothes are repeatedly used as representation for the current state of Delia’s life‚ usually in direct correspondence to Sykes‚ her husband. Sykes‚ being the constant pest he is‚ often complains to Delia‚saying ‘Ah done tole you time and again to keep them white folks’ clothes outa dis house”(1). This quote could possibly be related to racism‚ however‚ it has an underlying meaning. Delia sorts the clothes almost
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women. In “Desiree’s Baby” Armand tortures Desiree mentally where in “Sweat” Sykes dominates Delia mentally as well as physically. Armand has no consideration when dealing with blacks. He treats the slaves as possessions rather than human beings. But in “Sweat” Sykes treats his wife as his slave. Armand begins to avoid Desiree and her child when the child reaches the age of three. On the other hand‚ Sykes ignores Delia for washing white people’s clothes and another reason is Bertha. However‚ these
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