The Theme Of Pride In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston and Kate Chopin, the author of The Awakening talked about some controversial topics, like in The Awakening she talked a lot about the feminist movement and how women should be treating more equally, For example, when Edna had went through her rebellious stage, discovers herself and has an affair on her husband. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, had written about prominent ideas that took place in the Harlem Renaissance, with racial pride being its main theme.
Zora Neale Hurston was born January 7, 1981 in Notasulga, Alabama. In 1937, which was around the time of the Harlem Renaissance, Mrs.Hurston had published Their Eyes Were Watching God. Their Eyes Were Watching God is about Janie Mae Crawford, a middle aged black woman named who returns to Eatonville, Florida and tells her friend her life story, she talks about her grandmother, Nanny Crawford, and her first husband Logan Killicks, who was not romantic, and treated her like he owned her. Her second husband Jody Starks, who had stolen her away and treated her
In 1899 Mrs.Chopin published her final novel, The Awakening, although it was widely accepted, it shocked people because of the strong leading female role. Kate Chopin had wrote this book when the feminist movement was just beginning in America, during this time in some states women were still classified as property. The Awakening is about a young woman, Edna Pontellier, who thinks about herself as a rebel and she has an affair with her husband, Léonce, cheating on him with the Alceé Arobin. During Edna’s “Awakening” she learned many things, like how to express love and compassion, and how to express herself through art. This offended a lot of people because Mrs.Chopin had written about controversial topics like feminism, during the time she wrote this the feminist movement was recently starting to