When they say: "they are bound by the bonds of Hymen", what does this mean? We will understand the intricacies of phraseology.
In Greek mythology, the god of marriage was so called. Its related roots are very complicated. We will not consider them. More importantly, another: according to one of the legends, Hymeneus is a effeminate young man (as handsome as a girl), who dies on the day of marriage. Under the "bonds of Hymen" are meant the marriage ties. And in this case there is no negative meaning, despite the death of the young man.
But the symbolic interpretation of the death of a beautifula young man is fascinating: for example, marriage can be regarded as a stage of the end of free life and the beginning of a family life. Some sources are even more radically interpreted: the death of a young man points to the death of beauty and youth in marriage. Perhaps, however, the latter interpretation is too gloomy. Although in some cases it is fair. Everything depends on marriage and relationships between people. In any case, if a person is entangled in the bonds of Hymen, then he must forever close the door to his past life. But practice shows, it does not always happen. Sometimes it also happens that the family does not die of beauty and youth, sometimes they just go into a more noble, moderate state.
However, let us digress from the roots of the expression and from jokesday of today. In pre-revolutionary Russia, when they said "they are bound by the ties of Hymen", they meant not only that people are married, but also that they have certain moral obligations to each other. And they relate not only to sexual relations.
Now, when history is forgotten, from phraseologyremained the very first and superficial significance - marriage ties. Nevertheless, the expression is completely literary, it was used by AS Pushkin in Eugene Onegin and O. Henry. The master of short stories has a wonderful work called the "Handbook of Hymen". The plot of the work of the American classic, as always, is unexpected and funny. The main character gains happiness and love of his life with the help of a collection of various facts and recipes.
These two examples say that the phraseology "tiesHymen "not only can be pronounced in a decent society, but also necessary. True, for political debates, it is unlikely to fit, but only because the deputies recently do not touch the topic of family and marriage, and so the young god would have come to court in the Duma.
The tone can vary depending on thecontext. If this stable phrase is written in a lofty poem or a high-flown congratulatory speech, then it will not cause a smile. But if in the everyday speech of modern man the expression "the bonds of Hymen" is intertwined (the meaning of phraseology is considered above), then often there is a comic effect. It is appropriate to use it when the speaker wants to joke. Usually the theme of such witticisms is the conclusion of conjugal unions.
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