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Essay / Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston focuses on the evolution of an African American woman as she navigates adulthood and three marriages in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston expresses the structured narrative through the point of view of Janie Crawford as she tells her story to her friend Phoeby and uses two dialects throughout the novel. The clear dichotomy between the narrator's diction and the characters' African-American dialect gives importance to Janie's struggles and progress in finding her strength and independence. Hurston magnifies the theme of voice and language, not only with the personalities of the characters, but also with the form of the novel by employing a third-person omniscient point of view, provoking images and shifts in tone. After two failed marriages, Janie finally feels a sense of freedom. Soon, she meets Tea Cake when he enters the store and asks her to play checkers with him. The narration of their first meeting lets readers know what Janie thinks of Tea Cake, while also showing Janie's control in her narration to Phoeby. The contrast between Janie's behavior towards Tea Cake and her behavior towards her ex-husbands foreshadows an equal relationship between the two, bringing her closer to her goal of finding her own voice. The name Tea Cake conjures up an image of sweetness, and Janie gives her a "little cut look to see what she means." Because no images have been attributed to Joe and Logan, readers know that Tea Cake and its sweetness will help Janie achieve her goal. The final image of the moon rising with its "amber fluid flooding the earth and quenching the thirst of the day" signifies a new day in Janie's life, as talking to Tea Cake quenches Janie's thirst with a voice and individuals...... middle of paper ...... Amanda's past in Tom's memory draws the audience away from the real world into the image and back again, adding to the eerie atmosphere of the play.1984The George Orwell's haunting dystopian novel 1984 delves into the closely monitored lives of the citizens of Oceania as the Party attempts to take control of society. In totalitarianism, propaganda and terrorism are means of enslavement with one main goal: total obedience. His goal was to create a “what if” novel about what would happen if totalitarian regimes, such as the Nazis and Soviets, took over the world. If totalitarianism were to occur, the leader would be the brains of the entire system. Orwell emphasizes the theme of individualism versus collective identity through Winston, the protagonist, and his defiance of the Party and Big Brother, with a frightening tone, surreal images and a point of view limited to the third person..