With freedom comes responsibilities… Simone De Beauvoir touches on the subject of childhood and freedom, there are certain freedoms that childhood gives you that once you go into adulthood you no longer have as Simone touches in this reading…
Children have the freedom to Rom, to dream to be just because they can; but once you enter into adulthood those freedoms are no longer acceptable. There are certain behaviors expected from adults that when you were a child you were free from.
Simone also touches on the subject that women give up their freedom to men, in many cultures and societies this is true, women bow down to man becuase they are taught to do so. They give up their beliefs or wants to please man because they are taught that this is the right thing to do…in many cultures and many generations women were considered lower than the male adult role.
Simone also touches on the subject of religion, that many of us give up our freedoms to it, we follow the rules and legalism of religion and give up our freedoms to it. It’s funny that we live in a country where we pride ourselves in being the land of the free and yet all the subject that Simone’s reading touches exists in this land of the free. There are many children who are in situations where they are in such bad situations that they are not free, women who are abused and captive in abusive marriages, they are not free, people who get involved in religious cults they are not free and this happens in everyday life in America land of the free, what is freedom? Simone says that to be true to yourself you can be free but it is rare that as humans we seldom are, we first are true to everyone else but ourselves and until we start to be true to oneself do we really reach our true freedom.
