Their eyes were watching God: Blog entry

“Janie was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid” (Zora Neale Hurston).

The battle disputing who is stronger and who is suppose to assume a submissive role for countless ages have been battled and for countless ages continues to be fought as no solid answer has been provided. Whoever reins superior and who assumes a bigger role lies completely within every individual mind set and their form of perspectives. However, when you put aside this battle of who is the paramount and who is not, you can come to the conclusion that there are some roles that men are meant to assume based on nature’s course, and then there are some roles women are naturally suppose to assume based on nature’s gift bestowed upon there. No matter the argument, there is no way around this concept. However, the primary focus is ranges with the ideal that women’s course with nature show more evidently and obviously than that of the male. For example, when it comes to child bearing, men have no will to say no but to establish credibility for women that only their natural God given nature of child bearing is in their hands. In Zora’s Neale’s Hurston’s selection, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, the authors also accompanies this notion by exemplifying one of her main characters Jamie, to accomplish the tone and illustration that there are some roles that just rapture around women more beautifully than they do so for men.

There are some things that when trying to describe, no amount of words than compare. Sometimes, creating a vivid image is the best way to get a message across, and Hurston does so in creating the nature surrounding women, through her use of imagery. Women are must definitely not born nor created. They develop from infancy and as nature takes its course, they decide what it is they want to be before blooming into a woman. Not every female can be considered to be women, but all female’s go through the same process and ability to process as such. “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom” (Hurston). Developing as a young woman, changes begin to occur within Janie, as she searches for what love truly is. Rather than bluntly coming out and saying it, the author uses the aid of imagery. The scene in which this concept is idealized sets place in an environment where nature naturally has a place. As Janie lies down, she notices a bee, come to rest on a flower. This imagery pronounces an example of love and how Janie herself visualizes it to be. This imagery of the bee and the flower also sets a course of enlightenment and oneness. A life for a bee without flowers proves impossible, just like the flowers also need the bee. Together the two take a course in nature that is expected. This kind of nature love exists between a man and a woman when it comes to marriage and love. When a male and a female decide to join in matrimony, the two then become one, and together paint a perfect picture. As the bee nectar’s the flower, the flower produces a powerful and beautiful scent. Just like when a marriage prevails a accordingly, those who watch it can tell that indeed love exists between the man and the woman. This imagery that the author sets is very powerful as the audience can see; it sets as the cover of Hurston’s novel.

Nature does not heed to the warning neither to the demands of any man. It simply just takes it course and does as it pleases. Though, it is true that men and women have the capability to take on the tasks that the other can do, there are just some roles that men cannot take, nor can women assume for men if it is not permissible by nature. By the end of everything, nature determines who it is does what in existence.