Every young person aspires to marry or be married. It is a dream that people have in childhood and that can be carried into adulthood about the person they will marry, the house they will live in, the number of children they will have, and how they will live a happy and happy life. satisfying. Thanks to literature, marriage has always been represented as the union of two lovers, usually a man and a woman, legally obliged to love each other until death. Throughout the marriage contract, a man and a woman are expected to be happy, love each other, give birth to many beautiful children so that they are complete and live together in harmony for the rest of their days. This is what most people have been raised to believe, that marriage is the source of happiness. The reality is that the institution of marriage brings more sadness than happiness to a person's life. This article will explore the difficulties of marriage using the two excerpts as evidence to ascertain that indeed marriage brings more sadness than happiness. Marriage has a certain degree of secrecy. The bride and groom can look gorgeous in their wedding dress and gown; throw an expensive party and many friends to celebrate with, and the wedding can be called grand, but there are always some secrets about the families of the bride and groom that are rarely revealed. In fact, the secrets are so serious that if revealed the marriage would automatically be interrupted. In Jane Eyre, Mr. Edward Fairfax Rochester stated that if he had known before his marriage to Bertha Antoinetta that Bertha's mother was a madwoman confined to an asylum, he would not have married her. Unknown even to the Freemasons, Mr. Rochester was not quite... means of paper... ends up hating all his in-laws, his father and Rowland his brother (Bronte, 1847). In the wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha Antoinetta longs for freedom. She hates being locked in a room with a small, very high window so that she can freely give everything she has to be free (Rhys, 1996). The hatred in the hearts of the two characters helps to further distance them from each other, adding to their miserable married life. In conclusion, the two stories are written from different perspectives of the main characters. Mr. Rochester's accusations are confirmed to be true by Bertha Antoinetta herself, except that she makes them unknowingly. All these actions help to denounce the difficulties that exist in marriage and, considering the two stories, the thesis according to which marriages bring more sadness than happiness in a person's life is valid..