Abstract

The Long Journey

The article presents personal background of a woman with a modern point of view. Men and women are inevitably possessed of a power over each other which cannot be thought out of existence or evaded by refusing to legalize a relationship. The woman who discussed her views about love and marriage had fine theories, which were only attempts to effect a reconciliation of her natural longing for love with her desire for personal autonomy. The long struggle between her own two greatest needs, the need for love and the need for independence, probably had its effect upon her final choice of a profession, that is social sciences. Through a more scientific approach, she began to see things as they actually were rather than as she wished them to be. She even came to understand that in spite of the intensity of her feeling about marriage she might be able to accept the outward form so long as the inner spirit of the relationship embodied freedom.