The Many Faces Of Marriage
One of the most difficult challenges of life in society is finding the
strength to break out of the mold which has been set by the values of
previous generations. From infancy onward, everyone's heart and mind are
struck by a deluge of ideas which declare what is "right" and "proper" and
"appropriate"; most defer to these pronouncements, for the realization
that there could ever be anything more has never come to them, and lack of
desire for something can be the most potent barrier to its realization.
Janie is one of those that realizes very young that the world can be so
much more than anything she has been taught by an outside source. The ills
which her people have suffered for so many ...
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his strength and power is at first
appealing, he too is unable to comprehend that life is in the living and
the being, and not in the having and the controlling. Janie not knowing
what marriage really meant, married because she thought he could take care
of her.
Marriage is defined as an insitution uniting a man and a woman in a special
form of mutual dependence, often for the purpose of founding and
maintaining families. As a social practice entered into through a public
act, it reflects the purposes, character, and customs of the society in
which it is found. Janie's questing spirit is crushed under the pervasive
blindness which surrounds her in her early marriages, but when her second
husband dies, she again begins to seek the revelation which she so longed
for as a child. Her heart is open, and when she encounters Tea Cake, their
hearts strike a chord, and Janie finds it possible for her own inner
values to resonate. She finds not judgment, but a confidence in her truth
of ...
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beauty makes Janie feel "a pain
remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid." She is able to see, for
a moment, the insurmountable beauty which resides within the depths of her
spirit and that of all her fellows, and, unaware of the restraining values
which society and appropriateness would place upon her, she looks upon
Johnny Taylor, a rag-wearing and scruffy schoolmate, only with his
essential humanity in mind, and to her, "the golden dust of pollen had
beglamored is rags," and it seems only natural to consummate this soaring
humanity with a kiss. All this indicates her unusual ability to transcend
what is dictated to her, and this wonder for life that she gains is to be
the most ...
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