Of Marriage and Single Life

Essay: Of Marriage and Single Life
By-Sir Francis Bacon

C.A- It is hard to say if being married is better than being single because both have their pros and cons and it depends on the women as well.

One of the biggest choices that a person makes is to get married or not. There are both positive aspects and negative of marriage. Sir Francis Bacon, an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian and few others, also wrote an essay on this topic, “Of Marriage and Single Life.” This says that it is really hard to say which one is better because they both have positive and negative side to it. He also states that main thing that decides the successful marriage is the women that men are married to. I agree Sir Francis Bacon’s central argument, successful marriage depend on their partner, through movie Water for elephants and A walk to remember.

In the movie, “Water for elephants” is about a student, Jacob that goes to a circus as a vet and falls in love with a married woman, Marlena. Marlena is a married woman surly was failing her first marriage, for the men that she was married might have been rich and successful, but he was aggressive, hot- tempered, self- centered and very possessive of her. These qualities of the husband lead their marriage to fail. However, unlike her first marriage that ended as a failure, her second marriage with Jacob was very successful. Though it was a same person depending on the partner her marriage varied a lot.

A walk to remember is about this marriage couple in which the wife gets a cancer. Though they go through very rough time they stay together and till the wife dies of cancer they still love each other. If a husband and a wife love each other till one’s death is what I would define as a successful marriage. In my point of view this could have been possible only, if the partner is right for each other. Thus, this supports the central argument; a successful marriage depends on each other.

Though there are many other factors that determine successful marriage, I agree with Bacon that marriage depend mainly one who the partner is. According to Bacon it is hard to determine if the single- life is better than marriage life. For me if one is successful it has to be better than the one that is not successful. Since, it is the wife and husband that determine the utility of married life; I think the main factor that decides value is the partner th