The Essay “A Bachelor’s Complaint is written by Charles Lamb in which he emphasises on his single status and speaks about married people as if they are very awful and offensive. He even gives some examples to prove his point. He says that married people offend singles like him by “Preferring one another to all the other world”. He always feels that married people are more favoured and singles are always looked down in front of them. Throughout this essay Lamb keeps on complaining about how married people’s attitude and how they flaunt their attitude and status.
Further he supports his argument by saying that the major reason behind his hatred for married people is that they are overly involved with each other that they forget everything else and flaunt everything so shamelessly in front of the singles. He even presents hypothetical situations as examples in the support of his points. In the beginning of the essay itself he draws a thin line between them and him by just stating them as “Married People”. He does so because that is what married people also do. They separate themselves apart in their own groups through their attitude.
After this he bring out the topic of children. According to him children also contribute to the attitude of married people. HE uses a phrase here to support his argument which is – “Like an arrow in the hand of giant, even so are the young children”. By this phrase he wants to explain here that whether we act stoic to the children or we give them attention, love and affection, all this will act like arrows in the hands of giants.
The major purpose of Lamb writing “A Bachelor’s Complaint” is to make married people realise that unknowingly their attitude offends the singles. at the end, he hopes that married people will correct their mistakes and try to improve their attitude towards singles. In this essay his arguments only bring the negative side of marriage to the spot light. But as we all know that there are even some positive sides of getting married as well which Lamb fails to prove as false.
