Their Eyes Were Watching God Sexism Essay

In the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God" the main power relationship is gender-based. The book took place in the 1900s, back then sexism existed tremendously. Through out the book there were many challenging situation regarding to sexism that Janie had to go through. These events are what shape jaines personality. I will discuss about my art work, quotes and how sexism affected the perception of identity of people in the book. The picture I drew was Janie in a bird cage with a mans arm holding it up, around her are eyes watching. Janie in a bird cage represents Jaine being trapped and controlled. She is not allowed to strive for the freedom and lifestyle that she wants. Since Janie is a woman she did not have much power in her relationship.
She would be quiet and not fight back. A quote from the book "Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. she's uh woman and her place is in de home." Since Janie is a woman she was not allowed to say a speech. Everyone thought that she was not capable of saying motivational words to a group of people. All the sexism and restraints made Janie's emotions and dreams build up which soon burst out. As soon as Jody Janie's husband died, this made Janie want to follow her heart which was to find true love. Everyone saw Janie as a different person as she started to live her own life style. She decide to go with a man that her heart longed for. People in the town all thought she was not acting proper and marrying someone that did not have a high status was bad. Sexism made everyone consider woman to be lower superior and property of men. Overall sexism has molded Janie and the perception of people around her. In conclusion sexism was a major power relationship that exist within the book. Sexism had a huge infulence on the characters in the book. It created a perception for everyones identity in the book. Sexism built janies peronality which lead to her decision making in