Themes of Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple
What would you do if you had a minimal amount of freedom and a husband who treated you poorly? Sounds like a pretty bad situation, doesn’t it? Well in two stories that were both set in the early 1900s and had black women as the protagonists, that was just the case. Both the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God and the movie The Color Purple contained several apparent themes that somewhat tied them together. Some themes are similar with each other while other ones are strikingly different.
During the first part of the twentieth century when both stories took place, women as a whole were not treated as equals. The black women population was especially affected because black people didn't have too many rights to begin with. Both of the protagonists from the stories, Janie and Celie, were belittled by society and had a very minimal say on important issues. One example from The Color Purple was when C
The similarities and differences are perhaps what bond these two stories together regardless of their varying plots. It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone like Janie were to meet a person that resembled Celie. Would the two be friends or enemies? Would their similarities overcome their differences? We can only imagine some of the possible outcomes.
Marriages were both similar and different between the two stories. All throughout The Color Purple and in the first half of Their Eyes Were Watching God, marriage was looked upon as a means of security and protection by the woman and as service and loyalty by the man. Wives were expected to do all of the chores around the house and cater to their husband at all times. However, in the second part of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie married Vergible Woods or “Tea Cake” who respected and truly loved her. They both lived tog
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