Analysis of Elizabeth Freemans Marriage

Running head: ANALYSIS OF FREEMAN`S `MARRIAGE`
Analysis of freeman`s `marriage`
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1ANALYSIS OF FREEMAN`S `MARRIAGE`
The essay consists of the analysis of the study of the perspective of Elizabeth
Freeman. She expressed her views on marriage and referred it as an institution. She
mentioned this in her personal diary. Freeman considers marriage to be an everyday matter of
life and an ordinary fact of life. She thinks it is not a concept that can be contested. However
the U.S culture was not a matter that was to be appreciated by her. She mentioned that
according to the culture of the States marriage included two simultaneous incompatible
functions. The culture followed by the U.S opined that marriage is the sphere of the protected
sexual and the economic interest. Initially Freeman thought marriage as a concept that was
regulated by the church and State. The Christian ideology marriage was something that
considered that marriage made the two individuals that are a man and a woman turn into one
single flesh (Brake, Elizabeth 2013). As said by Freeman the problem with the use of the
marriage as a figure for the liberal democracy was that it had a long structure and it had
asymmetrical power relations. The complicated power relations include the unwritten spousal
contract which is commonly visible in the promise vows for divorce and separation. Marriage
implies the rule of patriarchy. The men had the power to gain control over the economic and
the social condition of the society. They had the power of controlling the women. The control
of women included the mental domination and the physical domination. She referred it as a
form of slavery. She questions the role of marriage as a guarantor of gender identity and
sexual hierarchy. There have been many loopholes in the system of management regarding
the marriage as an institution. The question that has been put forward by Freeman is
regarding the role of the constitution in marriages (Susan, Boyd, and Elizabeth Sheehy 2016).
Despite the constitutional separation of the Church and the State, the protestant marriage had
a notion of historically prerequisite for belonging to `America`. She continued to ask what the
other hierarchical institutions marriage and couplehood by making effort to democratize

2ANALYSIS OF FREEMAN`S `MARRIAGE`
support for the diverse household structures and emotional bonds that organize the lives of
the people (Foyster, Elizabeth 2014).
The first aspect of Midwife Martha Ballad`s Diary in the theme of Courtship and
Marriage include that the two of the three marriages in the Ballard household in the year 1792
portraits the basic difference between what was actually required and what the others expect
in today`s world. Marriage was a process as told in the diary of Midwife Martha. It has a
connection with the essay of Freeman (Rainey, Sarah Smith 2017). She had raised the same
concerns in her essay. Marriage and courtship always had a concept that needs to be
questioned in the history of America. Marriage was a series of events. It was not a matter of
one single day. By law marriage was a bond that needed to be posted in public place for
fourteen continuous days and it was announced at three public religious meetings on three
different days. The marriage was a necessary concept and there was nothing interesting about
it. This had similarity with the views of Freeman. She elaborated in her essay that marriage
was a concept that existed plainly. There was no grand concept of marriage. The concept of
Marriage was viewed from the orthodox point of view. The institution of marriage in the
history of America was something which was thought from a primitive point of view
(Dohistory.org 2017).