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Film Analysis: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Women have always struggled in society to gain equal status as men. Women today are still struggling to gain equal rights and pay as men. Despite experiencing many hardships throughout the course of history, women have always stood strong and strived to reach their goals. For example, in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford has a goal of finding true love. She is highly interested in men and ends up having three husbands throughout the course of her life. In the Steven Spielberg film, The Color Purple, based on the novel by Alice Walker, Celie Johnson has goals of re-uniting with her family. Celie doesn’t care about men as much because Albert, her husband, has treated her very poorly. Despite both experiencing …show more content…

Janie has more sympathy and compassion for her partners than Celie does for Albert. After Joe slaps Janie at the store for insulting him, Janie explains to Pheoby: “Ah’d ruther be dead than for Jody tuh think Ah’d hurt him,” she sobbed to Pheoby, “It ain’t always been too pleasant, ‘cause you know how Joe worships de works of his own hands, but God in heben knows Ah wouldn’t do one thing tuh hurt nobody. It’s too underhand and mean” (82). Janie shows her compassion toward Joe despite the fact that Joe has beat her and verbally insulted her. Janie still loves Joe and wants Joe to know that she would never hurt him even though he hits her. She knows that Joe does only as he pleases, however she has sympathy toward Joe and would never harm him. In The Color Purple, Celie feels the exact opposite and hates Albert. Near the end of the relationship with him, Celie almost stabs Albert in the neck with a razor blade she was using to shave him. As Celie is about to impale the blade in Albert’s neck, Shug Avery arrives just in time and convinces Celie to not kill him. Celie is so tired of taking abuse from Albert that she comes close to killing himtries to kill him. She absolutely hates Albert and has no respect for him. While Janie has some sympathy for Joe, Celie has no sympathy for

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