Francis Bacon believes that unmarried men are more financially better off than married men, but then again a married man doesn’t know about the compassionate feeling that a man gets from a wife. But marriage also depends on the person’s age as well.
“Of Marriage and of Single life,” Francis Bacon compares two kinds of men, one of who are single, and the other who are married in different ages. Bacon displays how a younger person should not marry as he/she will have a lot of responsibilities, and they have the responsibility to earn well. They would not be able to balance out their time between family and work. Not only that, with single men of all ages, have a tendency to be crueler than married men due to not having the compassion you would have from a child or your wife. Even if they are nicer in some ways, like giving to charity or helping out, if the question came to marriage, they would run away due the thinking that being single is another form of freedom from the chains of commitment. Other than that, middle aged men would be more considerate for marriage as they would be more settled in their job so the family can be supported. With older men, a wife would more likely to take care of the husband like a nurse rather than a having a family that acts more like a family.
Francis Bacon explains the proper age for a person to marry. Marriage, being a serious matter for some, especially for many women displays how many different men would treat them. For a single man, the compassion is not there because a man knows about humanity and discipline from having a child and a wife. Marriage at younger age puts restrictions on what a person needs to achieve when they start work. With this restriction, a person would have a hard time starting a family. If marrying a middle aged person, a family would run much more easily because there some sort of a stable responsibility in the family. If marrying an older man, a woman would not have the marriage that she would hope for. So basically, Bacon shows that if you want to have a successful marriage, it is better to marry a middle aged partner.
Looking at this judgment of Bacon, I can say that it is in a way true. Having a cousin that was married off pretty young, she did not have a good time in her marriage as both her and her husband were young at age. Not only that, but they had just started off in jobs and they were having a very hard time in their marriage. At the end of it all, they had split up due to this misconception of their marriage being good. This is one example of how a marriage has a higher chance of failing due to the instability of their marriage. This shows how Francis Bacon’s idea of the aging on marriage cannot be successful if the couple is too young. Bacon shows how, even with money, there needs to be a sense of responsibility, and in this case, none of them seemed to be ready for the responsibility ahead of them and none of them wanted to improve.
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