Till Death Do Us Part?
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real
thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished” –Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe (Jetha and Ryan 113). Goethe, a 19th century
German novelist, playwright, and poet, speaks of a confusion that has escalated
into what could be seen as a full-blown crisis in modern cultures (Merriman,
C.D.). The punishment? Divorce. After just one glance into an advanced society
such as that of the United States, it is easy to see the crumbling ruins of an
institution that is so respected by many. One person after another, blinded by
infatuation, mistakenly connects love and marriage and puts too much trust into
this single system. Marriage, made desirable because religion and media glorify
it, is actually grasping onto the edge of stability with one trembling fingernail.
Most who enter the “beautiful journey” of matrimony are in reality traveling
closer and closer to failure. The point being, if marriage is the norm and the
eventual outcome of true love, then why is there such a large number of
divorces? And what is the explanation for the unhappiness in marriage or the
desire to be with any person besides one’s spouse? Evidence has it that humans
as a species are not programmed to spend their entire lives with one
individual. Marriage is unnatural.
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