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Final discussion

1. Bring out the meaning of the following proverbs and comment on them in connection with the problems discussed in the unit.

  1. A good husband makes a good wife.

  2. A good wife makes a good husband.

  3. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?

  4. Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.

  5. Extremes meet.

  6. Faint heart never won fair lady.

  7. Faults are thick where love is thin.

  8. Love will creep where it may not go.

  9. Love laughs at locksmiths

  10. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.

  11. Marriages are made in heaven.

  12. No herb will cure love.

2. Think of a good translation of the following quotations and give your comment on them.

1) Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond (Thomas Love Peacock).

2) Marriage is like life in this – that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses (Robert L. Stevenson).

3) The value of marriage is not that adults produce children – but that children produce adults (Peter De Vries).

4) If happiness were uninterrupted and well-being universal, these things would cease to be happiness and well-being and become merely boredom and daily bread and Daily Mail (A. Huxley).

5) If you fight for yourself, only you can win. When you fight for your marriage, you both win (Paul Persall).

6) It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all (A.L. Tennyson)

7) Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own and another’s spiritual growth (M. Scott Peck).

8) If you wonder where your love went, you forgot that you are the one who makes it (from Reader’s Digest)

9) After the verb to love, to help is the most beautiful verb in the world (Bertha von Suttner).

10) Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being ‘in love’, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burnt away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other … and when all the pretty blossom has fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two (from Captain Corelli’s Mandoline).

11) Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

12) Why can’t a woman be more like a man? (from G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion)

3. Points for discussion

1) What do you think is the best foundation for marriage? What is the proper way to pick a mate?

2) Speak about marriage of convenience, its pros and cons.

3) What makes marriage a lasting and fulfilling union?

4) A white wedding: Is it still part of modern European culture?

5) Express your point of view on intermarriages.

6) Speak about the role of in-laws in family life.

7) Describe the recent tendencies in marriage and family life and give your own evaluation of them.

8) Speak about the present day status of men and women in marriage, social life and politics.

9) Comment on the main fruits of the Women’s Liberation movement.

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