Analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's "The Ten Commandments of Charm" (85-86)

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm” was part of a collection discovered when?

1990s

What did Hurston write

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm” for?

A commemorative magazine published by a sorority

What sorority did Hurston write

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm”for?

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority

Which convention was

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm” written for?

Zora Phi Beta Sorority’s annual convention in Chicago in 1925

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm” highlights hurston’s talent for what?

Irony and criticism

What is Hurston’s target with

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm”?

Frustrating ways women are eboxed y restrictive gender norms

What is irony?

A literary technique where an author’s meaning is distinct from actual expression

What is faux-Bibilical language ?

Language that is similar to biblical language like “Thou; thyself; etc”

The importance of women’s role in asking men understood is ironic why?

Because at first it seems to highlight the superiority of men because they should be helped but Hurston frames it as the helplessness of men since they need a woman’s touch to express themselves.

What was popular in the time period

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm” was written in which told women how to behave?

Essays on manners and comportment and women’s magazines which offered advice on how to impress, entertain and satisfy men

Hurston’s “The Ten Commandmnets of Charm” reveals the imbalance between what?

social expectations between men and women

Why are women’s magazines ironic?

They make it clear that women have to work hard to avoid damaging fragile men who are supposedly the stronger sex.

Hurston’s insight from

“The Ten Commandmnets of Charm” represents her participating as an emerging feminist as well as her capacity for the observation of what?

Social formations, or the arrangements, beliefs, hierarchies and patterns that defined a group’s day to day existence.

As a young college student what did Hurston understand?

That you could tell a lot about a time and place by what sorts of behaviors were valued and why.