In six and a half pages this paper examines modernism in a comparative examination of The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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it a coming of age tale, but it is more importantly an awakening of a person to their own worth. Hurstons characters provide an unbiased look into the lives of
the ordinary person living in the South and what life was like for the Black American during this time. These modernist ideas were also reflected in another southern writer, William
Faulkner, whose The Sound and the Fury, embodies and adapts to modernist ideas through the depiction of the character, Benjy. Modernist ideas in literature tend to stray from the
extremely formal or flowery prose of earlier authors, and instead embraces a culture, a time, a setting and a way of life that may or may not be familiar to
the reader. In Hurstons book this is evident from the beginning as the reader learns about Janine, a young black girl who begins life in a rough way.
Janine is married off by her well intentioned Grandmother to a man that is twice her age and a man that treats her badly. In many ways he enslaves her
and she feels helpless to leave him. Finally, Janie shares that when her grandmother passes away she takes off and runs away from Logan. Shortly after that she tells Phoebe,
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Janie soon learns that she has left
one type of abuse for another. Janine thinks that just because she is better of financially, that she will be better off
emotionally, spiritually and physically. But she is not. In some ways it can be said that it got worse. Finally, after he humiliates her in front of a large crowd