The Mistreatment of Women in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston :: Biography Biographies Essays

The Mistreatment of Women in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston     Society is suffering from a number of serious companionable problems related to women, and to the interaction between the two sexes. Male domination and patriarchy have been under challenge by feminists and the womens movement. The economic, social and political faithfulness of women around the world, the violence brought against women and their confinement has been brought to the forefront in recent years.   Zora Neale Hurstons stories accost prohibited against the uncivil and un precisely treatment of women especially in their marriages. Hurstons stories come upon the disturbing situation for women about mistreatment abuse in the 1930s, when speaking out was unheard of. This was the time period for the setting of Hurstons stories, and her stories reflect violence against women that occurred during that era.   Zora Neale Hurstons work are brilliant glimpses into the mind of a woman who lived life for what it was, who cherished nothing more then to have...a busy life, a just mind and timely death. She lived as she wrote, to the fullest, she wasnt just a writer, but in like manner an anthropologist who brought to the light the folklore, and culture of nations that before there had been little study of. She brought new, elicit views of the world through her poetic words, and is a shining example of what it is to be a woman. Intelligent, driven, and confidant (Walker 8).   At only thirteen years grey-headed Hurston was thrown out of her fathers house because her stepmother didnt approve of her or her siblings. At an first age Huston knew about struggling and making a way for herself (Ford 7-9). In Zora Neale Hurstons autobiography she said, There is approximatelything about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams falling off the heart like leaves in a dry age and rotting around the feet, impulses smothered too long in the loathsome air of underground caves. The soul lived in a sickly air. slew can be slave ships in shoes (Hurston 37).   Hurston was mistreated as a child, and in her story Drenched in Light it reveals some of her background of child abandonment. She also focused on womens rights and fights in marriages.