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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. While each novel features an independently minded female protagonist, the writer argues that there are distinct differences between them as well, specifically focusing on the topic of marriage and sexuality. No additional sources cited.
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Determined to live her life by her own rules, Sue struggles throughout the narrative in search of self-realization. Similarly, Zora Neale Hurston creates in "Janie," the protagonist of Their Eyes
Were Watching God, an enormously independent and resilient woman who not only insists on living live by her own rules, but succeeds where Sue fails. Sue, like Janie, is an
ardent individualist who resists the gendered restrictions of society. However, Sue differs from Janie in several significant ways, which causes her, at the end of Hardys novel, to resign herself
to accepting all of the restrictions that she previously eschewed as a sign of her guilt and punishment over the deaths of her children. Indicative of Sues determination
to be her own person, she declares, "I shall do just as I choose" (Hardy, 2002). Sue is described as doing things "that only boys do, as a rule," with
the stipulation that she is "not exactly a tomboy" (Hardy, 2002). A good student, Sue, as a child, could also hit and slide into the pond as well as any
boy, but would suddenly refuse to play boys games and reprimanded her aunt concerning wading with shoes and socks off, "Move on, aunty!" Sue admonished, "This is no sight for
modest eyes" (Hardy, 2002). As this suggests, Sue was highly conflicted over gender roles from the time she was first aware them. On the one hand, she wanted complete freedom
from gendered restrictions, but on the other, she realized that society (particularly nineteenth century society) has extremely defined concepts of separate spheres for female and male behavior. As this suggests,
at the beginning of the novel, Sue is essentially a "fence sitter," balancing precariously between conventionality and radicalism. She marries Phillotson, not because of love or passion, but rather to
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