Essays on Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston, an African American author, portrays the racial struggles of her time in a racist, systematic society in the 20th century. In her short story, “Sweat”, she conveys many thematic and literary techniques such as allusion, symbolism, and imagery, through the African American...

In Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston, both Delia and Syke express their hatred towards each other – Delia, in her calm fury, and Syke with his usual aggression – but it is clear that while Delia’s disdain for Syke arises from the latter’s mistreatment of...

Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God displays the power struggle women and men held during this time. As many women were passive and accepted this lack of authority, main character Janie moves against the tide. Through her search for fulfillment in a...

Zora Neale Hurston, a prominent Harlem Renaissance writer, exposes early 20th century African American struggles of racism and sexism in her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God and her short story “Sweat.” Hurston shows how both female protagonist struggles to find themselves through physical and...

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the reader is brought through the life of the main character, Janie. She’s wrung through a journey consistent of disappointment, and heartache, then abuse and oppression, and finally coming to an end with passionate and...

Zora Neale Hurston writes the life story of Janie, the main character in the novel, Their eyes were watching god. In the story, Janie suffers at the hands of the people who are supposed to care for her the most, and is held under their...