Sunday, December 2, 2012

Enlightenment Blog Post


Marriage now a days is changing from how it was even just ten years ago. People don’t like the legal liability of being committed to one person forever. Some people like having companionship but they don’t need a piece of paper to prove it. They’ll live together but they don’t want to get married. Being gay is a lot more accepted in today’s society, so people are being more honest instead of being embarrassed and trying to hide it. Since people of the same gender can’t get married in most of our country and all over the world for that matter, they’re not getting married. So the institution of marriage today is different because people are ok with not getting married. And If they do get married it’s not all rainbow and everyone lives happily ever after. We can get divorced now, affairs, getting married too young of for the wrong reasons.   
There are a couple different ways I could paint this story. Two gay people getting married and the in laws don’t agree. A teenager gets pregnant and the parents of the kid think it’s what they should do and rush into the marriage because it’s “what’s best for the baby”. A husband cheats on his wife with his secretary at work. There are too many ways to count! 
Let’s go with the gay couple for the next question. I don’t think it would be the same rather than just opposite of Hogarth’s. In his painting it was an arranged marriage, but they want to get married but their parents don’t want them to. Maybe the side of family that’s supporting them has to pay for the wedding, but that would be the only thing that is similar.      

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