Use these questions to guide you:
1. What is her motivation in life?
2. Is she typical or unusual? Explain your reasoning.
3. Choose one quote from your dialectic journal as evidence for your analysis.
4. In what ways is Janie a liberated woman?
5. In what ways is Janie still a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy as well as a second-class citizen in her society?
6. Does Janie still hold relevance as a character in today's society? Why or why not?
7. Sometimes it helps to analyze a character in juxtaposition to another character. How are Janie and Pheoby foil characters? How is Janie similar to/different from the men in her life?
1. Janie’s motivation in life is love. She tries to find love so much that she ends up with someone that treats her good at the beginning and towards the end they start treating her like crap.
ReplyDelete2. She is very typical at times because when her mans start treating her like crap she starts standing up for herself but at times she’s unusual because she goes with everyman she sees.
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4. In the way where she leaves every time a “good man” comes at the time.
5. She still fits in the AVE/EVA dichotomy because at times she’s obedient and understanding, but then she leaves her husband’s.
6. She is relevance as a character in today’s society because none of us is really truly holy, but we always try to be happy and pursue our dreams. Whether it’s accomplishing love, NBA, or being a millionaire, all of us try to pursue something. Ohhh and she’s also talks like us.
7. Janie and Phoeby are not really foil characters because both have equal characteristics. They both want someone to talk and both are true to each other. We, as the readers, do not know much about Phoeby. Janie is different from the men in her life because she never changes.
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In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist, Janie Crawford’s main motivation in life is to not only be a housewife, but to also be an independent black woman. She is a very unusual character because she lives double standard lifestyle. She lets the audience members down by being in three failed marriages before she lets go and is herself. Janie is also obsessed with nature, especially trees. She becomes consumed in relating things in her life to trees. In Chapter 4 it states, “Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance.” Here Janie is comparing Joe’s love to her past. This represents Janie’s behavior of always letting us down by falling for another man too quickly. Janie is a liberated woman literally however she tends to let men rule her life. When you are married you have to adapt to your spouse’s lifestyle as well as they have to adapt to yours. Janie falls for any guy that will take her and moves on with them and adjust to how they want her to be. As portrayed in the novel, Janie quickly gets tired of being thrown around by these men. Janie begins to feel confined to her husband over time. Janie is a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy because she represents AVE in the sense that she wants to be a housewife and always wants to please her grandmother however the EVA side comes out when she throws herself to numerous men she doesn’t truly love. She is a slave to the second-class citizen because she was raised in a wealthier white family’s backyard. Janie also talks with a black-dialect which infers that she was not brought up learning literacy and grammar. In my opinion, Janie still holds relevance in today’s society because girls of all ages feel like they are forced to find this feeling of love at such a young age. Janie was not ready to be married to Logan just as many girls in today’s world are not ready to leave home and be with the man they supposedly love. Janie and Pheoby get along so well because they have opposing attitudes towards life. Janie is experienced and has seen the world and learned about different people whereas Pheoby has stayed in her hometown and is eager to listen to all of Janie’s adventures. However, they are alike in the sense that they do not like to gossip or spread rumors about one another. Janie trusts Pheoby. Janie is not very similar to the men in her life because they are more controlling where Janie is more independent. Janie wants to be a house wife like normal black women however each of her husband’s are very controlling and believe Janie should work for them as well as herself.
ReplyDeleteJanie’s motivation in life is very complex. She is on the hunt for true love and she searches for it in every person she meets. Her constant search for a man is a struggle and the audience sees that after her second husband, Joe’s, death she has a liberated feeling placed upon her. She is lonesome, yes, but because of her seventeen year “prison-like” marriage with Joe, she is happy to be her own woman. When thinking of a typical protagonist, Janie does not conform to the general thought. She is more of an anti-hero because her AVE/EVA like dichotomy separates her wanting of freedom from her wanting of love. She lets the audience down because we want her to break free from men and she feels the same way at times; however she finds herself falling in and out of love often. She represents the AVE/EVA dichotomy because of her longing for love, but staying true to her heritage and background. This is an age old struggle for women in general because we are conflicted with the different standards we are supposed to meet.
ReplyDeletePhoeby is a prominent character in this novel. She and Janie are juxtaposed by their opposite, yet complementary, personalities. While Janie is a more vibrant and outspoken woman, Phoeby is a quiet person who looks out for her friends in whatever way possible. Janie and men are also comparable. It is often understood that women are the only ones on the search for true love, however men are on the same journey. It is obvious that Janie’s need to find love is relatable to women, but men can also learn something and relate to her experiences. The quote “did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated,” is one that sums up the character that is Janie Crawford. This signifies her main struggle with the question of marriage and if it did bring true completeness. Although Janie’s character was from many years ago, her same struggles are still relevant in today’s women. The struggle with society’s message that a woman needs a man is still profound, therefore Janie’s struggles and character are still pertinent.
-MADELINE LUTZ
Janie Crawford's motivation in life is to find passionate, genuine love and struggles to find it throughout the course of her three marriages in the novel. She's desperate to be seen as an equal and strives to maintain respect from the men she becomes intimate with. Janie is an unusual character for her time because her views and perspectives differ from most of the other women. Most women would've been pleased to have a stable and secure marriage, where as Janie was unsatisfied and searched for a loving and passionate relationship. Not many women maintained her desire to be seen as an equal and be respected by men. "Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do." (Janie pg.75) Here Janie is boldly addressing her husband Jody and Sam Watson while they are talking at the store. She is showing her want to be respected and seen as an equal by her husband. Janie is a liberated women because she has traveled and has become educated in different ways of life. Most women her race and gender have stayed in one place majority of their life, and it is uncommon for women like Janie to have seen as much as she has. Although she is a liberated woman, she is still a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy in some ways. Janie represents AVE in a sense that she shows the want to be a good wife to a man, but shows EVA when she strives to be independent and respected after throwing herself at multiple men she doesn't genuinelly care for. Janie shows double conciousness because she is conflicted with her true identity vs what society has labelled her to be. Janie is also looked down upon in society simply because she is a black woman, and was raised in the backyard of a wealthy white family. This shows that her role in society is seen as second to those of higher status and other race/gender. Today in our society are people who have similiar aspects that Janie Crawford possessed in the novel. Certain people are still disrespected and thought of as having less potential than others because of insignificant reasons like race, gender, etc. Her character is timeless because everyone struggles with double conciousness and the double standard of what our identity truely is. Janie and Phoeby are foil characters because Phoeby highlights for the audience that Janie is very adventurous for women of her time. Phoeby has stayed in the same town all of her life, but Janie has moved several times and has lived with different people. Janie is similiar to the men in her life by having dominant personality traits and being an independent thinker. However she is different from them because they do not see her as an equal and do not show total respect for her.
ReplyDeleteJanie’s motivation in life is to find real love. Every man that she has married mistreated her and did not show themselves as equal to her. Janie is a very unusual character because she wants one thing but acts a different way. She wants true love but instead follows her Nanny’s idea of marrying for materialistic reasons. In the same way, Janie is typical. Many people in the world today are hypocrites that say they want one thing but search for the exact opposite. The narrator stated, “These men did not represent what she wanted to know about.” Janie was searching for true love but what she really had in past relationships did not even compare to the real thing.
ReplyDeleteJanie is also a very liberated woman. She has travelled around while other women in the time period usually lived in one place their whole lives. By roaming around she has seen many things and has a lot of knowledge. She is also liberated because she can be independent. Although Janie is liberated, she is also a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy. She tries to act like she wants to get away from all the bad men in her life, but she keeps falling for the same type. However, Tea Cake comes along and changes that. All of these things are examples of how Janie would fit in perfect with today’s society. Our world today is full of people who want one thing and keep following old habits.
Janie and Pheoby have different outlooks on life. Pheoby kind of has the mentality of appearance is most important because she has lived in the same town all of her life. Both of these women do not like to spread rumors about others because they know it is wrong. Janie is also different from the men she has been with. Logan and Jody mistreated Janie and did not see her as their equal. However, Janie thought she was equal to them and I believe she should have been treated that way.
-Aaron Love
Janie's motivation is finding true love in her life and that is what she stays searching for. She is an unusual character because she changes everything about her life three times and most women prefer staying in the same place with the same people all their life. She is also more opinionated than most and I believe her lack of parents affected her personality so that she differs from other women, such as Pheoby. My quote was spoken by Janie. She says "He can take most any little thing and make summertime out of it" about Tea Cake. I think this quote reflects her personality in her love of nature and her admiration of her husband. Janie is liberated because she has much more experience in life than most black women of the time had. She was educated and traveled a lot. She also held a job in a store, which is a higher level job than others would have. Janie is expected to be such a model citizen by Joe and he expects her to not want to participate in common activities. The men also want her to work though and Tea Cake wants her to accept his behaviors. She is expected to be everything at once. Janie is a second class citizen because she is not white and because she is a woman. She is not treated like a white person and the men in her society put work off on her and tell her how to act. Janie is still relevant because so many women spend their lives searching for a man and falling into relationships like hers because they are afraid of being independent. Janie and Pheoby complete each other, in a way. Pheoby is a more traditional woman while Janie is daring and speaks her mind. They each make up for most of the characteristics that the other lacks. Janie and Logan had different ideas of what is important in life. Janie was restricted from being herself by Joe, who was very selfish and power hungry. Tea Cake and Janie have the most similar personalities out of her men because they both seek to make each other happy and lead simple lives together. Tea Cake is finally the guy that views Janie as an equal.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God,the main character Janie's main motivation was to find true love. Janie's grandmother Nanny,just wants her to be with a man that will treat her right, but Janie wants to be with someone that she truly loves. Janie is considered an unusual character by many beacuse she has different perspectives on life than other women have. She has been in three marriages and seen a lot more than many women have. Most of the women would have been happy to be with the Mayor of town, but janie wasn't, she didn't care what it took to find true love. In the novel when Jody becomes Mayor, he thinks Janie should be happy for him because she is seen as a big women. The narrator said " A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. She felt far away from things
ReplyDeleteand lonely." (pg 46) This qoute shows that any woman would have been happy with being in a big position, but Janie didnt care becasue she didnt feel any love.Janie is a liberated women because she is free in the sense of having
seen a lot more than most black women of that time period in their whole lives. She has experienced working,traveling and three marriges throughtout her lifetime. As many women like Janie can relate to the Ave/Eva dichotomy. She is seen as Ave when she is well respected and obedient to all her husbands even though they abuse her and talk down to her.
She continues to stay faithful to them and be a good wife through thick and thin. Janie is also considered as Eva since she has been married to two guys that she didnt have true love for. She is a revelant character to socitey because many women and men still go aroung looking for true love in multiple relationships. Many still stay in the relationship but not because they love that person but because of the status. Throughout the book Janie is talking to her old friend Pheoby Watson. Janie and Pheoby are foil characters because Pheoby has not been out of her little town, while Janie has experienced and seen alot more than Pheoby. Janie is different from the men is her life because she seems more independent and loyal to others, than the men. She is similiar in the sense that she wants to be the one in control sometimes and have a voice. All these qualities make Janie a good character because she represents what todays society has become.
Tamara Suggs
Janie's Motivation stems from her longing to find true love. Janie is usual and unusual at the same time. In a way janie is like any other woman in this world searching for love in all the wrong places and finding herself at the same time. She is unusual in her approach to finding love she looks for materialistic things instead of the things that matter.“These men did not represent what she wanted to know about.” Janie searched for real love, longed to be in love, but the relationships that she had previously been in were as far away from love as possible. Janie is liberated because of where she has been in life, she has traveled and she is also educated, and these were all opportunities were not afforded to black women during this time. Janie is a second class citizen for two reason, she is not fully white and she is a woman. Although she could pass for white she is not treated like a white woman, and the men in her life tell her how to conduct herself. Janie is still relevant in modern society I can't personally relate to this book but there are so many people my age especially young women that can benefit from this story. I believe that if Pheoby was a man Janie would be all over it. Pheoby is a traditional southern bell the type of woman that the men in this story like while Janie has been through more and she isn't afraid to be outspoken. Each one of them has something that the other doesn't. Janie and Logan both know what they want in life but have different ideas about how to get it what it is their searching for. Janie and Joe both like power they both want to be in control, but they have very different ideas about how women should act.Janie and Tea Cake are the best match because despite there differences both of them are trying their best to make the other happy.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book, Their eyes were watching God, (the protagonist) Janie’s motivations in life are to have a husband, to have a perfect love life, and to be independent. Janie is a very unusual woman, for instance Janie is obsessed with trees, and has three failed marriages. Janie relates almost everything in her life to trees. In chapter 1 it states “Janie saw her life like a great tree….” In this statement it is conveyed that Janie’s memories are shaped like a tree. Janie’s whole life has been in pursuit of love, and life. Janie looks for a life under her pear tree. Janie wants to be a liberated woman but never quit gets there; whenever she meets a man she moves with him and does what she’s told. In a marriage the couples are to accept how each other are. In Janie’s relationships Janie’s spouses try to change her. Janie is still a slave to the Ave/Eva dichotomy because she wants to be a good wife to her husband’s and to be obedient like her Nanny wanted, but at the same time she wants to be independent and free to do what she wants. Janie is still considered second class because even though she is rich compared to the people in Eatonville she is still black. Janie’s character still holds relevance in today’s society because girls at a young age still feel the need to be loved, and to find love. When like Janie teens are still not ready to live with someone other than their families. Janie and Pheoby get along so well because they are complete opposites. Janie is kind of wild and has traveled and experienced different places and men, when Pheoby is obedient and has never been outside of Eatonville, and has kept the same husband. Janie isn’t really like any of the men in her life other than Tea Cake a little. Janie’s first two husbands were controlling and wanted her to work for them and herself. Tea Cake was a little different, he let her wear what she wanted, and let her put her hair down, and just have some fun.
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DeleteJanie's motivation in life is to find a husband that she can come home to and truly love, not just someone to make children with. She has gone through the struggles of a few bad marriages which makes her want to find a loving marriage with actual love. The horrible marriages have had an effect on her which makes her an unusual character. Different aspects of her life have shaped her personalities. In chapter three the narrator says "Ah hope you fall on soft ground, because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed" she now all of the sudden has sympathy for people that endure challenges in their life, when she used to not care about them at all. The result of her last husband Joe dying has made her a liberated woman physical and emotionally. Since Joe has died she doesn't have to abide by his rules such as having to wear that thing on her head, and being trapped in a loveless marriage that caused so much stress. I think she still is a Ave/Eva slave because she is going to act different ways at different times and everyone does this. She has more things in town than second class citizens because she has a job that has good pay, when others are struggling which makes me think she still is second class but just has more than others. Janie still has a place in today's society because people are always changing and she is always changing. She also has had more lust than love which is similar to today's society. Janie and Pheoby are so different, yet they are so close. Janie has traveled many places while Pheoby has stayed in one spot her whole life. Their personalities complement each other because each are so different. Janie speaks her mind and shares her opinion while Pheoby is quiet and more traditional. Janie has many similarities and differences between the men in her life. Logan was a control freak who wants power over others, while Janie thinks everyone is equal and deserves the same rights. Then there was Joe who was very similar to Logan but on a larger scale. Finally there is Teacake who has the same personality as Janie. If he becomes a future husband of Janie, I believe that it will be the most enjoyable marriage Janie has had.
ReplyDeleteJanie’s motivation in life is to find true love. Janie struggles to find love throughout the novel, and you can see this by her three marriages. Janie is unusual because she is unlike other women of her time. Janie wants to be seen as an equal, she wants to be her own person. Janie also has an obsession with nature, she loves trees. Janie is liberated in the sense that she wants to be independent. Also Janie’s traveling distinguishes her because most women during these times lived in one place their whole lives, while Janie moves to different places throughout the novel. Janie is still a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy. Janie shows AVE by wanting to be a good wife and trying to please her grandmother, but shows EVA by wanting to be respected. Her longing for love, but staying true to her heritage makes her a slave. Janie is a slave to a second class citizen in her society because she is black women raised in a wealthy white family’s backyard. This is still seen in today’s society because people are still looked down upon due to race, gender, etc. Pheoby and Janie are foil characters in the novel. Pheoby is more like the regular woman of this time, she lives by the standards, while Janie is different, she travels and is not as loyal to men as Pheoby is.
ReplyDelete1. Janie motivation in life is to find passionate, genuine love and she struggles to find it within her three marriages. She's strives to be seen as equal to the men she becomes intimate with.
ReplyDelete2. Janie is an unusual character for her time because her views are different from most women. Most women would have been pleased to just be married where as Janie was unhappy not having the true love with her soulmate.
3. "He can take most any little thing and make summertime out of it." This quote was about Tea Cake and i believe this shoes her personality because it shows that she sees the best in him. She truly believe in their true love.
4. Most women of Janie's race and gender have stayed in one place, where as Janie is more experienced in life. It is uncommon for women like Janie to have seen as much as she has.
5. Although she is a liberated woman, Janie is still a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy. Janie represents AVE in a sense that she shows the desire to devote herself to a man, but shows EVA when she throws herself at multiple men she doesn't actually care for.
6. Janie is looked down upon in society simply because shes black and was raised in the backyard of a wealthy white family. This shows that her role in society is seen as inferior to those of higher status and other race/gender. Today in our society are people who have similiar aspects that Janie possessed in the novel. Certain people are disrespected and thought of as of a "less" than others because of reasons such as race, gender, etc. Her character will be forever significant because everyone struggles with the double standard of what our identity truely is.
7. Janie and Phoeby are foil characters because Phoeby exposes to the audience that Janie is very adventurous for women of her time. Phoeby has been pretty stationary, but Janie has moved several times and has lived with different people. Janie is similiar to the men in her life by having an overpowering personality traits. However she is different because they refuse to see her as an equal and do not show respect as they should.
Zora Neale Hurston's main character, Janie, in Their Eyes Were Watching God has the motivation in life to find not only her true self, but also true love. She wants to find someone who will treat her right and make her happy. She marries three different men, but does not find the right man until her third marriage. Janie is an unusual character because she lives a double standard. Janie wants to be an independent woman, but she also wants to be married. "Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about." Janie felt that being single would help her find her true self, but she also did not like being lonely. Janie is a liberated woman because she is an independent woman and she does what she feels is right. Janie is a slave to the AVA/EVA dichotomy because she wants to find someone who will love her for who she is and treat her right, but she falls for the same type of men that do no respect her at all. Only one man does respect her and that is Tea Cake. It took her two marriages before him to find the person she deserved. She is also a slave to the second-class citizen in her society because she is a black woman, but was raised in a wealthy white family's backyard. Janie is relatable in our society because many people struggle with the same things she does. People live and double standard now and are treated differently because of they way they look. Janie and Pheoby are foil characters in the novel because Janie is more experienced in life and has went many places, while Pheoby is more quiet and has stayed in the same town. Pheoby listens to Janie's stories and tries to support her in her decisions. Janie is similar to the men in her life because they all have huge personalities and all are pretty independent. However, she is also different from the men in her life because they don't agree on the same things and they treat each other differently.
ReplyDeleteJanie's motivation in life is a self-journey of self and of love. She is not, and seemingly will not be, content with just any person; she seeks true love. While the pursuit of what Janie sought isn't vary rare -- it is, and has been, idealized in many cultures -- succeeding with such is rather unorthodox. Janie's motivation, the independence of the self and the entrapment of marriage, are rather contradictory, Janie, though seems to make that work by adjusting that independence to reliance ratio whenever needed, such as when Joe died, that ratio tipped far into the favor of independence. "...[Janie] liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about," shows that full turn to her ideology of self-independence; she convinced even herself that could rely on herself and needed not to marry again. This is also one of the ways that Janie is free, along with her enslavement to the AVE/EVA dichotomy: her ability to rely on herself. While being able to stay true to her inner-strength, Janie is also caught up in the game of love, which brings her back in on its next turn; simply put, Janie's wanting to be true to herself is her EVA, and the part of her longing to be good housewife -- possibly even the reason she stuck with Joe for those eight-teen years -- would be her AVE. Stick Janie in the place of almost any contemporary denizen and the end-result would show that many people now strive for the same that Janie did; the switch would probably show that the two are rather identical. Janie makes the same mistakes in love that many people make, and generally she does nothing too off-the-wall. This is also, perhaps, why she is a good character: she is believable.
ReplyDeleteJanie's motivation in life is to find good, genuine love and struggles to find it throughout the course of her three marriages in the novel. She's desperate to be seen as an equal and strives to maintain respect from the men she has been with. Janie is an unusual character for her time because her views differ from most of the other women. Most women would've been pleased to have a stable and secure marriage, where as Janie was displeased and searched for a loving and caring relationship. Not many women maintained her desire to be seen as an equal and be respected by men. Here Janie boldly addresses her husband Jody and Sam Watson while they are talking at the store. She is showing her want to be respected and seen as an equal by her husband. Janie is a liberated women because she has traveled and has become educated in different ways of life. Most women her race and gender have stayed in one place majority of their life, and it is uncommon for women like Janie to have seen as much as she has. Although she is a liberated woman, she is still a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy in some ways. Janie represents AVE in a sense that she shows the want to be a good wife to a man, but shows EVA when she strives to be independent and respected after throwing herself at multiple men she doesn't care for. Janie shows double conciousness because she is conflicted with her true identity vs what society has labelled her to be. Janie is also looked down upon in society simply because she is a black woman, and was raised in the backyard of a wealthy white family. This shows that her role in society is seen as second to those of higher status and other race/gender. Certain people are still disrespected and thought of as having less potential than others because of insignificant reasons like race, gender, etc. Her character is timeless because everyone struggles with double conciousness and the double standard of what our identity truely is. Janie and Phoeby are foil characters because Phoeby's story is the one supposed to be heard, she is the "good girl". But Janie's story wasn't supposed to be heard and she is considered a "bad girl". Janie is similiar to the men in her life by having dominant personality traits and being an independent thinker. However she is different from them because they do not see her as an equal and do not show respect for her.
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Janie’s motivation in life is her search for love and happiness. So far the book has been about Janie looking for love, when she thinks that she has found it she realizes that she is unhappy and then moves on. I would consider Janie to be unusual for her time. Most women at the time would have already been married or if they were in an abusive relationship they would have just stayed in it for appearance. The quote when Pheoby tells Janie to stay in her relationship proves that that is what most of the women would have done at that time. It would have been very unusual for a person to have been married that many times and then go with a man as young as Tea Cake. Janie is a liberated women because she does not follow traditions very closely. She does not just stay with one man like most women at the time would have. She cares more about her happiness then she does appearance. She is still a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy because she wants to do what will make her happy but she still feels obligated to do what Pheoby and her nanny tell her to do. Janie’s character still holds relevance today because she is on a journey looking for happiness and love which is what pretty much what everybody is doing. Pheoby and Janie are foil characters because they are like opposites, Pheoby is a regular women that follows traditions and Janie is doing her own thing. Janie is different to the men in her life because she does not like to follow traditions like Logan does and does not really care about power like Joe did.
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1. Janies motivation in life is to find love. Janie wortks so hard on finding love that she blindly goes into marriages not knowing about her lover.
ReplyDelete2. Compared to nowadays, Janie is very typical because she still makes the same mistake we do now and in the end she wants to be independent.
3. "These men did not represent what she wanted to know about"
4. Janie is a liberated women because she shrives to be equal or independent.
5.Janie is a victim of the AVE/EVA dichotomy because she choices to be a good submissive wife but also wants to be this on the edge independent women. So sadly she can fall into the second class of her society at times.
6. To be honest, Janie is very similar to women in modern times. She wants to be strong and independent but then a good wife at times.
7. Janie and Pheoby are foil character because they are opposites of eachother. Janie is strong and independent while Pheoby is passive and goes with the flow. Also Janie is different form the men in her life because he personality is precocious compared to her time. However, the men are still acting old fashion.
-AJG :)
Janies motivation in life is to find herself and true love.I think she is a typical character because she is a desperate woman without any knowledge of anything, but what her nanny and her husband’s have taught her. most girls are raised not knowing where they are going to end up and take the first chance they get into "happiness" and "freedom".Janie is liberated women because she has a lifestyle most women would of have loved to have. She has wealth and can do what she desires with it.Janie is still a slave in the AVE/EVA dichotomy as well as a second-class citizen in her society because she works as hard as the rest f the people, but most things are just given to her. She is not fully good nor fully bad, she is just an unhappy woman seeking for love. She is not depending on hard work, she depends on her husband.Janie and Pheoby are foil characters because
ReplyDeleteJanie is similar to the men in her life because she has fallen for the appearances and has never actually taken the time to analyze and fall in love. Janie is different from the men in her life because she doesn’t know what’s prepared for. The men she has been with have had a good understanding on what it is that they plan on having. Janie just goes with them and letting everyday just slip on by. She appears to have a voice but in reality she doesn’t.
-Jennifer Orellana
Janie’s motivation in life is her search for love and to be happy. So far in the story Janie is looking for love and when she thinks that she has found it she realizes that it is not it and moves on. to me Janie is very out of the ordinary than most women during her time. Most women have already been married or in a relationship just for the looks of it no matter how bad it is. The quote when Pheoby tells Janie to stay in her relationship states how most women's relationships were at the time. Jnaie is a women full of freedom and independent becuase she does not follow what others do and does what she think is right for herself. She cares more about being happy than her own apperance. She is still a slave to the AVE/EVA dichotomy because she wants to do what will make her happy but she still does what people tell her to do because she feels like she has too. Janie’s character still holds relevance today because she is looking for happiness and love which is what everyone else is doing as well. Pheoby and Janie are foil characters because they are like opposite. Pheoby is a regular women that follows traditions and Janie does what she thinks is right. Janie is similiar to the men in her life by having a independent personality, but she is different because they dont treat her as an equal and have no respect for her as a person not by her personality.
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In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston the main character is Janie Crawford. Janie's motivation in their eyes were watching God is true love. Janie is in search of someone who can be her other half, her missing piece, or as symbolism is often used in the book you could say she is looking for a bee to go with her flower. I think Janie is typical and untypical. She is typical because in a lot of novels, books, and stories women characters are looking for love and they find it in all the wrong places. She is untypical at the same time because she did not follow the life that was expected of her during this time period. Women usually did not do work and were content with being treated like a piece of property. Janie was not. "Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore." The quote above was said by Janie and is her analysis of love.
ReplyDeleteI would describe Janie as a liberated woman because of her independent nature and all the prior experiences she has had in life with traveling and different marriages. Janie is still a slave to the AVE/EVA idea of double consciousness because she wants to be on her own and live a life that is different, but at the same time she is wrapped up in the opinions of other people. I do believe that Janie holds relevance to characters today because peoples motivations and attitudes are similar to ones in the time period of the novel. Janie and Pheoby are different, but very similar. Their share very different opinions on life. Pheoby still has it put in her mind that looks are extremely important because that has how she has been raised. Pheoby has never been outside her town unlike Janie who has experienced other places. However both of these women do not spread rumors about others because they know how wrong it is and know the dangers of it. The men in Janie life have so far not treated her with the amount of respect she deserves. Logan and Joe mistreated Janie very badly and did not see her as their equal. Janie knew though that she was equal to them even if she was a woman.
Janie Crawford’s motivation is in search on finding the one man she can depend on. Throughout the book she goes through three marriages. In all of her marriages she becomes dependent from them. She could not find the one who she truly loved and could depend on forever. Janie does not follow her own motives. She is unusual in the sense that she did what another wanted her to (Nanny). She strived to do what she wanted yet did not. “Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech- makin'.. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home." (Hurston 45) This quote is an example of her husband mistreating her. There really was no true “love” in her marriages. Janie is a liberated woman because she has seen things many haven’t seen. She is adaptable to the different circumstances. She tries to make the impossible possible yet fails, as evidence from her marriages. She was on a different level than most women in general, not to include black women which were considered even lower than other. Janie is still a slave in the AVE/EVA dichotomy because in the sense of ave she is trying to adapt and be the perfect wife yet eva because she not truly loving and leaves them to be independent on herself in search for true love which she cannot seem to find. She is a second-class citizen because for she is black and two because she is a woman. In that time period and still to a certain extent they are considered second-class citizens. Janie still holds relevance as a character in today’s society because many of the same things still happen now-a-days. Many times people are still mistreated in the same way or aspect. Janie and Pheoby are different yet similar in the sense that they both make up for each other’s lack in certain area. Janie is the “adventurous” she is the transcendentalist as to Pheoby being the more put back and calm on per say. In the far run, both Janie and Pheoby have the same mentality, being that they both know what is right and what is wrong. For example, they both know why it is wrong the spread rumors. They spread rumors and talk and judge Janie yet Pheoby has her back, she defends her. Janie is also similar to and different from the men in her life. Janie and Logan are extremely different because they both have different mentalities; Logan wants what Janie does not desire. Joe was selfish, all he wanted and desired was power, Janie again did not relate to this. Tea Cake and Janie related the most in the sense that that was the only thing Tea Cake could do. Tea Cake was not a rich guy, he did not have much of similar attributes to the others. He seemed like the one who really treated her nicely and equal to others. She was treated best by Tea Cake.
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