Analysis Of Marriage And Beauvoir

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Beauvoir believe that the institution of marriage is just a way of society once again forcing women in to this submissive/ subservient status. Goldman argued that it not love it’s the direct opposite of love to marry someone. Marriage is not how to show someone love and wasn’t created for that reason and was only created to make women be under the control of her husband. While Voltairine believed that marriage was for women away of taking over their freedom. Though their argument are different they are all trying to solve the same problem and get a point across. This is a social construct meant to take the women identity of herself away from her giving it to the man her husband. In order to enforce some patriarchal quo of what it means to be …show more content…

A girl is told from a young age of how one day she will meet this wonderful man, which will be her prince charming and if she loves him she will get married to her prince charming. She starts her analysis of what love is by talking about how love means different things based on if it a guy or a girl answering the question. A women who is in love is lost in the love. She is solely devoted to the person that she is in love with, while for man it is more of just a person who happily receives such admiration and love and devotion. The social construction of love will have the women lost and becoming very submissive to this man whom she is in love with. Whom without she can’t exist or at least she feels she can’t and when he is gone she loses …show more content…

That love should be enjoyed between two people who are married regardless of the marriage and shouldn’t be a result of a marriage. Marriage is simply economic decision to combined assets together, a type of insurance policy between two people. Which also has a lifelong commitment a sense of obligation to that man or women that comes along with it. Using the increased rates of divorce, separation, and cheating, she says that marriage is a failure, in which there is no mutual respect for one

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