Their Eyes Were Watching God Theme Essay

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston starts off with a concept of dreams constructed as ships sailing on the horizon, few drifting away or coming to shore, and others forever sailing, a remembrance to signify the life of men. While this passage only lasts for one short paragraph, it creates a core idea for the book; the aspirations, dreams, and wishes of men are always inhabiting their thoughts, sailing on the horizon where they remain until they perish from Time bearing its unrelenting force upon them.
Each and every man has aspirations, dreams, and wishes of what they want to happen in their world, but very often such things never come to fruition. They will forever sail on the horizon and be consumed from the very depths whence it came to be separated from. The failure of men unable to make their dreams materialize into something beyond themselves inevitably causes the Watcher to cast his gaze elsewhere, allowing the course of Time to eradicate their dreams and everything else they stood for. Dreams are a crucial piece of the theme in Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Hurston portrays them
Giving it more depth than it would have otherwise and providing an undertone throughout the entire story with bits here and there sprinkled in plain sight to further emphasis the realities of dreams. Books are an example of dreams being able to sustain an idea for a much longer period of time before being demolished entirely by Time than an individual’s memories would be capable of surviving. Books such as Their Eyes Were Watching God are the ships which had sat out on the horizon to come and bank at the shore. They are the life of man, his aspirations, his dreams, his wishes, his everything, sitting at the shore waiting for Time to take them back to the depths they arose from, the depths beckon for their