The Open Relationship between Sartre and Beauvoir

The most famous work of simone beauvoir, a French existentialist writer, is her feminist masterpiece The Second Sex, which gives a detailed philosophical exposition of women's gender, role, family and marriage from an all-round perspective for the first time and becomes "the most sound, rational and intelligent book for women in history". The ideas and viewpoints have influenced countless women in the world so far.

Beauvoir 1908 was born in a traditional conservative middle-class family in Paris. At a very young age, she showed rebellion and doubt about all kinds of rules that bound her personality development. As she grew older, she became more and more aware of her uniqueness.

/kloc-at the age of 0/9, Beauvoir published her personal "Declaration of Independence": "I will never submit my life to the will of others". This strong self-awareness made Beauvoir establish his own direction of struggle very early, that is, as an independent and free woman to pursue the realization of self-worth.

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Because Beauvoir has long been sensitive to death, the shortness of life and the passage of time, she is afraid that life will fall into this repetitive and meaningless endless cycle, and she is eager to realize the value of life. So, when she met Sartre, all her doubts and fears seemed to find a direction to rely on.

Beauvoir's acquaintance with Sartre is also quite dramatic.

1929, college graduate Beauvoir took the teacher qualification examination, and she got the second place, and the first place was Sartre, which was the opportunity and starting point for them to get to know each other.

Beauvoir, with outstanding personality and charming beauty, is like a gift for Sartre. He fell in love with her at first sight and soon fell in love with her.

"She has both the intelligence of a man and the sensitivity of a woman." Sartre later commented on their first meeting.

Sartre was short and ugly, and Beauvoir's family had opposed their association, which strengthened Beauvoir's determination to be with Sartre.

Beauvoir and Sartre

That summer, they often walked, discussed and laughed happily together. Beauvoir found Sartre very much like her in many ways. Sartre's thought was more radical, and he abandoned many prejudices. He has his own unique views on the observation of life and the world, which makes Beauvoir feel the ideological impetus and spiritual excitement. Getting to know Sartre became the luckiest thing in her life.

Sartre was engaged in writing, and he also encouraged Beauvoir to write. Beauvoir recalled this experience in her autobiography: "When I said goodbye to him in early August, I already felt that he would never leave my life."

Beauvoir and Sartre were not unmarried from the beginning. They also considered getting married, but Sartre knew Beauvoir didn't want to be a housewife in the traditional sense. She has a will and talent beyond the average person, and she can achieve higher life value instead of killing her life in trivial mediocrity.

Beauvoir and Sartre

After consideration, Sartre decided to sign an agreement with Beauvoir, stipulating that they had an "open relationship". On the premise that love is indispensable to each other's lives, they can have "accidental love", but they will never cheat or hide each other. Although Beauvoir's heart was full of anxiety and uncertainty at that time, she also realized the realization of personal value more rationally. She needs an independent personality and career.

Beauvoir wrote in her memoirs: "We will never be strangers to each other and never call each other for no reason. No force can destroy our alliance, but we must make this alliance not degenerate into bondage and habits. "

In the long life, although they abide by each other's agreement, this relationship is not the most perfect. They are not moral guardians. They all like different people at different times, which normal people with physiological and emotional needs can't get rid of, so they will be jealous of each other and quarrel with each other. But as Beauvoir said, they have the same mission and pursuit together, which is more important than anything else.