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The Deeper Meaning
The Deeper Meaning
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It is evident that the value individuals ascribe towards a particular phenomenon can only be
equated with the kind and extent of sacrifice that is offered by the individuals. This statement is
true as it is evidenced in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora where the character
Janie dream about love. This character wonders whether having love will be available when one
is married. This character is determined to find her voice and she strives at ensuring that she has
her own independence and attempts to fight against the stereotypes that are placed towards
women.
Her dream of achieving this however, undertakes at least three decades and three marriages
before she finally is able to find her own voice. The different men she has married over the
course of three decades affect and impact her differently. The journey of the marriages she
undergoes through all showcase her as being not broken from the inside, rather she is a character
who is ready to endure all the hardships as well as the challenges that are all unique to her course
and still emerge victorious at the end. While she is young, it is evident that Janie has the strength
and fortitude to answer as well as be able to leave a man and run away. This kind of actions
indicates that Janie is slowly yet steadily trying to find her voice. She is determined as to never
be a slave to any of her husbands. When she marries Joes and comes to learn that he was not the
kind of person she thought he was, she slowly loses her voices over the years but at the end of it
all, she regains her voice as a woman and is not ready to play any more second fiddles in
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marriage. Thus, the value with which Janie attaches to having the ideal romantic relationship is
vindicated at the end through the illustration of the manner in which she seeks t attain it
It is evident throughout the novel the idealism of the character Janie as one which she desires not
only to achieve romantic love but also be able to have a connection with the natural as well as
folk life that surrounds her. Janie’s picture of romantic love can only be equated to blossoming
pear tree which is kissed by singing bees. Her marriage to three different men does illustrate the
point of the kind of sacrifices she is ready to undertake so as to achieve the ideal romantic love
that she has always dreamt about. Although the pathway of achieving the idea of romantic love
for Janie is one which does show the perils one has to undergo in whatever conquest one desires
to conquer.
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Work Cited
Hurston, Zora N. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
1990. Print.