Reasons For Getting Married

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Camila Machado 4/03/11 Extra Credit Essay Reasons have changes for why people want to get married. In Elizabethan times, the main focus of the matrimony was the money. The bigger the dowry the woman had the more attractive she was to men. It rarely mattered if she was nice, funny, or outgoing. They just looked for a well-behaved, well-mannered woman that would obey his every command. Things have changed drastically though. Now a woman must love the man if she is going to marry him. The money isn’t the focal point (hopefully), how obedient the girl is doesn’t matter, and what the family has to offer doesn’t have to influence the marriage. People get married so they can be with the same person they love for the rest of their lives. No one else matters to them but that person. The main reasons for why the couple is deciding to get married is a determining factor for how good the marriage is going to be or how happy they will end up being. In “Pride and Prejudice” the main arguments for why he wants to get married are so it looks good with his rank and because a very respectable woman told him to do so. He isn’t looking for love, he isn’t looking for happiness, he is just looking for a woman that will fit his descriptions and be more of like an asset to him. He wants to look good In front of all of his people so he feels like by getting married he will set a good example for them. If I were the woman he was going to ask for marriage I would have definitely declined the offer. He comes off as self-centered and arrogant and cares not about the happiness but about his career. In the long run whoever would get married to him would end up miserable and lonely since the man didn’t make an effort to connect with the woman and materialistic things don’t matter after a while. The only thing that
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