'Modern times Essay\r'

'Janie Crawford, a impeccant spirited individual, is the main character in the bind â€Å"Their Eye’s Were Watching God” which was indite by Zora Neale Hurston. It should also be noted that Hurston was an anthropologist because of the declare’s historic every last(predicate)y accurate perception of the expectations nasty wo men lived up to during that time. The story unfolds around Janie’s emotional state and how she fought a amassst the male heaviness she endured in her two couplings all the while trying to define herself as her take person. This oppression she endured with her marriages shows the influences and ideas that men had oer women during that time period.\r\nIf person was to look at this novel in the berth of an anthropologist you would have to say that it is a fictional novel with historical merit of how life was for women in the conspiracy during the 1920’s. The story scenes centers on a town and its citizens that was creat ed as a black community. Not only was in that respect oppression but also exploitation that Janie had to endure. In her freshman marriage to Killicks this was shown when he intended to wander his wife in the field working the plows. Janie is feeble and without free will. â€Å"Ain’t got no placeuation place. It’s wherever” (31), Killicks claims.\r\nKillicks always was able to unopen her up when he felt she was trying to trust herself. A good example was when he utilise derogatory threats against her family when she tried to talk a female chest their marriage while shoveling manure. Then when the scorn wasn’t bountiful to keep her quiet the threat of physical furiousness began to be utilise. â€Å"Don’t you intensify overly many words wid me dis mawnin’, Janie, do Ah’ll take and change ends wid yuh…Ah’ll take holt uh dat ax and come in dere and kill yuh! ” (31). Joe Starks, her second husband, also exp loited Janie by working her in his store. He seemed to silence her communicatoryize all too often.\r\nThere were many quantify he would point out that she was tho a trophy wife of someone in authority. Janie seems to be bothered by the high stool that Joe insists she sit on and when I first read that split up I envisioned a child world punished. For this marriage silence is golden, on the begin of the wife. The first time Joe quieted her, Janie said it left her feeling cold. When he ref utilize to allow her to speak at his election for mayor she felt that it took, â€Å"the bloom off of things”. At the elections Tony Taylor treasured Janie to speak, â€Å"uh few words uh encouragement from Mrs.\r\nMayor Starks,” that is when Joe takes the traumatize and says, â€Å"mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no speech makin’. Ah never married her for nothin’ lak dat. She’s un woman and her place is in de home” (42). A bel ief that held true for sometime even in instantly’s world. It was interesting that Stark used verbal cues to make Janie shut up and be obedience using her looks or intelligence as tools for his oppression. If you were to ask any battered woman to daytime they too would say how insults and put downs helped in suspension their self esteem in order for their oppressor to gain control.\r\nIn Janie’s first marriage delirium was always exactly a threat; in her marriage to Stark it became real. Stark beat her over a poorly cooked dinner once (68) and for diss his sexual abilities he struck â€Å"Janie with all his index” driving â€Å"her from the store” (77). Killicks on his last day with Janie threatens to kill her, Stark when bedridden and helpless wishes â€Å" nip and lightnin’ would kill her! ” (83). Violence goes hand and hand with oppression and exploitation. The threat of violence physical or verbal has consequences that follow the v ictim throughout their lives.\r\nJanie was basically just property in the eyes of her men. To do whatever their bidding and was often thought of as no better than a mule. There was one part of the book where it talked of a man that did not resembling to beat his wife because he felt it was just like stepping on baby chicks. He used empathy instead of moral rights as to why men shouldn’t beat their women. Are women thought of as just baby chicks or mules? The answer is yes and until now can be applied in modern times.\r\n'