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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. Divor
Society has a special place in its psyche for true love—we think of true love as unconditional, intimate, and everlasting. Divor
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2016-05-26
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问题
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 marry 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.
Marriage based on romantic love is less stable because______.
选项
A、romantic marriages are psychologically eternal
B、divorce is more practical than human emotion
C、romantic love are emotional feelings which will change over time
D、human emotions need not remain everlasting
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。题干问为何基于浪漫爱情的婚姻较不稳定。文章第六段开头说,当浪漫爱情进入了婚姻,永久的婚姻就变得不稳固;第二句接着说,浪漫爱情是感情化的,感情是变化的,选项C)符合文意,故选项C)正确。
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