"There is no frigate (Cargo ship) like a book to take us to lands faraway." This Statement is saying that often works of literature take the readers to other countries and past centuries. Many people agree with this statement because of Arthur Miller's book The Crucible and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
The play The Crucible take the reader back to the 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts. During the 17th century Salem,Massachusetts was a village peopled by Puritan settlers. When reading The Crucible the reader learns that back in the 17th century, the puritans were very religious, but aslo higly superstitious. They though events which couldn't be explain by reason or by the will of God were the works of satan. Their fear of the devil combined with their two faced social order resulted in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, on which the play is based on.
The play Their Eyes Were Watching Gtod by Zora Neale Hurston takes the reader to three Florida locales: rural West Florida, Eatonville, and the bean field outside the Palm Beach. Their Eyes Were Watching God also takes the reader to the 19th century where gender issues and racism were present. During the 19th century womens traditional roles were to be housewifes, subservient and coquettish. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the readers see gender issues when Janie,protagonist, first two husband, Joe and Logan, make her do domestic chores. Gender issues accur when Janie three husband punish her both verbally and physically because they feel it's their right as her husband to do so. In Their Eyes Were Watching God racial issues are seen, when they buried the dead after the huricanne because the people buried the white bodies in the pine box and the black bodies are tossed into an open-communal grave.
In conclusion many works of literature tend to take the reader to different countries and to past centuries. The work of literature that proved this to be true were The Crucible by Arhtur Miller and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
