Circular Fulfillment

is to make a beginning./ The end is where we start from.” In order to begin self

realization a person must first conquer a hindrance in their path. This idea is used to

portray the nature of Janie’s “exploration” in There Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora

Neale Hurston. Through the use of style, setting, and symbolism, the reader can interpret

that the beginning of one’s self-fulfillment comes from successfully overcoming one’s

Throughout the novel Hurston utilizes the horizon as a symbol representing

Janie’s dreams in order to reveal the realizations she comes to which enable her to start

her self fulfillment. At one point while she is married to Logan Killicks, Janie realizes

something about her marriage to Logan Killicks; “She knew that God tore down the old

world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form

with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. She knew now that marriage

did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”(25) Janie had

expected marriage to grow into love, but her dream did not come to be. Hu

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Approximate Word count = 1212
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)