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Society has a special place in its psyche for true love—we think of true love as unconditional, intimate , and everlasting. Divo
Society has a special place in its psyche for true love—we think of true love as unconditional, intimate , and everlasting. Divo
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2016-10-18
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Society has a special place in its psyche for true love—we think of true love as unconditional, intimate , and everlasting. Divorce, on the other hand, appears to be the antithesis of true love. It is temporal, legalistic, and involves lots of headache-inducing paperwork and splitting material goods. So would it surprise you to learn that the development of the western notion of romantic love is what ultimately led to the development of divorce law?
The truth is this: not only did the development of romantic love coincide with the development of available divorce, but it was the absolute trigger(导火索). This juicy part of societal history has been widely overlooked.
Let us start from the beginning of this era. From 0 A. D. to the 1600s—that is, 1 ,600 years—divorce was not available to married couples. The Catholic Church prominently influenced and controlled marriages.
With only a few exceptions, marriage was permanent, regardless of abuse, fault, irreconcilable differences, or anything else short of death. This cement-permanent marriage was not based on ideas of romantic love, but instead, on much more practical matters—reliably keeping land in the family, and keeping status stable.
Indeed, romantic love was not encouraged, and even frowned upon, between married couples. Up to the 18th century, "it was generally held that passionate sexual love between spouses within marriage was not only independent, but positively sinful".
If divorce was unavailable for 1 ,600 years, how did it recently become so widespread? The first factor is that as the Catholic Church became less influential, the importance of family land became less drastic. But the more important—and interesting—factor is that western concepts of romantic love began to arise in the 1800s. Enlightenment thinkers, in their salons, and romance novelists in their publications, began pushing married love as a credible(可信的)idea. After women began reading these books and listening to these ideas, it began occurring to them that they should many for love rather than convenience—a novel concept at the time.
However, once romantic love entered the equation, eternal marriages became psychologically inconsistent. Romantic feelings are emotional. Emotional feelings change over time. Therefore, a marriage built on romantic feelings could not be indissoluble. As one academic put it, because "human emotions need not remain eternally constant...divorce became practically possible. " In sum, it is ironic that today, many of the people who advocate against easy divorces do so with the idea that they are defending romantic love, because it was the very emergence of romantic love that triggered the availability of divorce. Marriage based on other factors-such as religion, land, family obligations—were much more stable bases for marriage than emotional love.
So the next time you hear someone complaining about the frequency of divorce in America, you can blame it on love.
Which of the following is not the essence of true love?
选项
A、Selflessness.
B、Intimacy.
C、Eternity.
D、Temporality.
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。题干问哪一项不是真爱的本质,由文章第一段第一句可知“在我们的社会中,真爱的观念有着特别的地位。我们认为真爱是无条件的、亲密的、恒久的。”A)、B)、C)三个选项都符合真爱的本质;而D)“短暂性”,第一段第三句说“离婚,是真爱的对立面:短暂、法律性的,”可见“短暂性”是离婚的特性,非真爱的本质,故选项D)正确。
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