bacon on marriage and single life

Essay on Marriage and single life

Central argument: In a single life man has fewer responsibilities towards people, therefore they can do great but sometimes it causes them to become selfish.

Sir Francis Bacon is known as the father of inductive reasoning. He is one of the philosophers from the renaissance period. Bacon said on the topic related to the issue of marriage that, in a single life man has fewer responsibilities towards people, therefore they can do great but sometimes it causes them to become selfish. I agree with him because: history has proven this, situations have prove that married men are kinder and I can look at my own dad as an example.

There have been many great men in history and I seem to see a pattern that the greatest are single. Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the greatest men to be known in history. Yes napoleon was single. Napoleon was a man of the army. He was a genral constantly risking his life for the nation. A man of this profession should not marry because he is most likely to widow his wife or miss out on his baby’s child hood. If a man like him does get married he would have too many worries in his day to day job. So a family and that sort of responsibilities would come in his way of being great. Napoleon got a bit too selfish towards the end of his career when he tries to go and take over Russia and gets defeated. Napoleon a single man did great things but a bit too carried away and selfish. Just as bacon suggested in his writing, single men do great things but can get selfish. But even if look at married men we can see how responsible they are and how they can’t take as many risks as single men.

In the movie the descendant George Clooney plays the role of a single father with two daughters and he is the owner of property which can most probably get him millions of dollars. George Clooney has to leave his work and has to see how his daughters are doing. So instead of doing something great his time gets consumed in nurturing his children. Then he has a chance to sell his land. But his youngest daughter has not experienced the land like her elder sister therefore he decides not to sell his land and let his daughters have a good experience. This shows us how George Clooney is a kind hearted man and a responsible human. It also shows us how he is being held from being great. Many would say raising two girls is a great thing on its own. But Clooney won’t be remembered in the future for that role as much as Napoleon will be remembered throughout his life. Personal experiences in my life have also convinced me in believing this man’s experience.

My Father got married very young, in fact he eloped with my mother. This did not bode well with his parents. My dad got kicked out of his house and ended up in some small town from Mumbai to start a business. Before this had happened my Dad had just gotten accepted into some university in America for engineering. Who knows he could have done great things. But he sacrificed his future for mine which just prove married men are just kinder.