Attitudes to Marriage | HF Engelsk B | 30. maj 2016
Dette er vores study guide til spørgsmål A i delprøve 2 fra skriftlig eksamen i Engelsk B på HF fra 30. maj 2016, hvor temaet er "Attitudes to marriage". Opgaveformuleringen lød:
- Write a summary of text 1 "Why men and women get married" in about 150 words.
- Give an outline of different reasons why people choose not to marry as presented in texts 2 and 3.
- Comment on the following statement from text 3: "It is as if looking (and spending) a million dollars and settling down with a prince is the best a woman can hope for."
- Write a short essay (150-200 words) in which you discuss whether or not marriage is important in today's society.
Sources:
- “Why men and women get married” by Jenna Goudreau
- “Not Married? The Odds That You Never Will Are Higher Than Ever” by Tanvi Misra
- “I don't want to get married, and here is why” by Becky Dickinson
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Presentation of the topic
The institution of marriage has come to be seen with skepticism by people nowadays. Modern societies are more about other individual priorities, such as a successful career than getting married. Furthermore, the higher divorce rates are rather discouraging even for those who do want to get married. For this reasons, many people prefer not to get married at all, even if a great deal of them have a partner with whom they cohabitate.
The three texts in your exam set present several attitudes to marriage; they focus on the decrease in popularity of marriage in modern society, but also on reasons why some people still choose to get married.
Text 1, “Why men and women get married” by Jenna Goudreau, presents the reasons why those who still get married nowadays, do it. Based on several surveys, the article shows that both women and men prefer to get married when they have secured their professional and financial status. Their reasons are a mix of love and peer pressure (the fact that their friends get married and their families’ pressures).
Text 2, "Not Married? The Odds That You Never Will Are Higher Than Ever" by Tanvi Misra, outlines that more and more people in the US are single and not married. This is mainly because people are either still waiting for an ideal match or they are not financially prepared for the costs of a wedding and supporting a family. The article mentions that research shows the likelihood of single people getting married eventually has dropped.
Text 3, “I don’t want to get married, and here’s why” by Becky Dickinson, presents the personal story of the author who does not feel the need to get married, even if she has been with the same partner for more than 10 years and they have three children together. The author’s reasons for refusing marriage are the financial costs involved in a wedding, but also the fact that she and her partner already form a family in practice.
