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Need an argumentative essay on 2 themes presented in the Their Eyes Were Watching God by 2 Themes presented in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagia

Need an argumentative essay on 2 themes presented in the Their Eyes Were Watching God by 2 Themes presented in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagiarism.

Women need to be the spiritual and legal equals of men.

The scale of social justice should weigh in favor of the female gender. What stand a women need to take if they are placed in circumstances totally unfavorable to them in life-situations? Ask Janie Crawford in the novel, “Their eyes were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. Janie Crawford’s character is introduced thus: “But for most black women readers discovering “Their eyes were Watching God,” for the first time, what was compelling was the figure of Janie Crawford—powerful, articulate, self-reliant, and radically different from any women character they had ever before encountered in literature.”(Foreword. xi) To Janie, empowerment of black women was not a concession. it was her birthright. Notwithstanding her remarkable achievements in literature, by 1950s, she was almost living in incognito, working as a maid in a Florida Hotel. That must have made her remain in constant touch with the ground realities of the people in general, and gave her time to think about the common man. She has her own style of depicting black-white relationships. This particular novel “affirms black cultural traditions while revising them to empower black women.” (p. xii)The greatest tribute to her, and her themes in the novel comes from Alice Walker, who “ describes her going to Florida, and searching through waist-high weeds to find what she thought was Hurston’s grave and laying on it a marker inscribed, “Zora Neale Hurston/ ‘A Genius of the South’ /Novelist/ Folklorist/Anthropologist/ 19012-1960.”( p. xii) This indicates her investigative spirit and inquisitiveness to get at the truth.

She married thrice and that shows the strength of the woman to challenge the male-dominated society. Her husbands were Mr. Kellicks, Mayor Starks and Tea Cake. The themes she

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