Essays on Zora Neale Hurston

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...

Throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the readers observe the development of a young African American woman as she chases after her dreams. The novel commences by introducing a middle aged lady, named Janie, as she walks towards her...

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...