To be or Not to be An extraordinary man once said, “Immature love says: I love you because I need you, mature love says: I need you because I love you.” Elizabethan era love was once a beautiful; yet deadly mix of sin and impassionate love. Most of this misguided love, revolved around money, social class, and religion. (Mahabal 33) One could say that love back then was not like the fairy tales that Disney projects it to be today. Just like how today’s marriages are an exciting, and important time in a woman’s life, it was also back in the Elizabethan era, just in different concepts. Although in our present era woman are free to marry whoever they want in their own free will, back then marriages were arranged by friends, relatives, and parents,
…show more content…
We will grow old with the person who lies down besides us at night. Although some people choose to not get married in the twenty first century, marriage was necessary. Single women in the Elizabethan era were considered witches. Of course the unmarried men had no recourse, nor were they punished for being single. Only the women of the era were chastened. (Mahabal I) Marriages back then, like today, were considered a religious ordeal, and when the young lady married she would be healed from her witchery. Numerous people decided to wait until the age of twenty-one to get married, but some parents who were very desperate for their children to marry arranged their marriages at the early age of twelve. Today teen pregnancies are a shocking, and eerie subject. Not very many children strive to become fathers and mothers at only the age of twelve. In the Elizabethan era children we’re forced into these sexual marriages, whether it was for wealth, property, goods, or continuing the family lineage of the male’s side, they were forced into it whether they wanted to be married or
We will grow old with the person who lies down besides us at night. Although some people choose to not get married in the twenty first century, marriage was necessary. Single women in the Elizabethan era were considered witches. Of course the unmarried men had no recourse, nor were they punished for being single. Only the women of the era were chastened. (Mahabal I) Marriages back then, like today, were considered a religious ordeal, and when the young lady married she would be healed from her witchery. Numerous people decided to wait until the age of twenty-one to get married, but some parents who were very desperate for their children to marry arranged their marriages at the early age of twelve. Today teen pregnancies are a shocking, and eerie subject. Not very many children strive to become fathers and mothers at only the age of twelve. In the Elizabethan era children we’re forced into these sexual marriages, whether it was for wealth, property, goods, or continuing the family lineage of the male’s side, they were forced into it whether they wanted to be married or