This had to be frustrating to the pilgrims. All they wanted was freedom. They went halfway around the world to find it. However, all they accomplished was constructing a new cage for themselves. They fled the religious captivity of the King and created a religious captivity of the colonies.
Freedom is really an illusion.
I could blind myself to the various cages. Sometimes I do. I think I have the freedom to decide which college to attend. To a certain point I can narrow it down, but I have to be accepted, I have to pay for it, I have to get there. Freedom is a worthy ideal.