Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: Difference between revisions

Very few people would want to be part of an [[Arranged Marriage]], but it's not all bad. After all, usually your parents are the ones selecting your spouse, and they know you and love you and want you to be happy. Or at the very least, they don't want you [[Spanner in Thethe Works|throwing a tantrum at the altar and destroying the alliance they've been planning for years]]. They may have other, higher priorities than your happiness, but your happiness does usually matter. Therefore, there is at least some prayer that your spouse will be [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage|someone you could grow to love]].

* Similarly, in Plato's ''[[The Republic (Literaturenovel)|Republic]]'', all "marriages" among members of the ruling "guardian" class are arranged by the state. We say "marriages" in quotes, because it appears that these are one-time things rather than permanent relationships. Also, although the selection of pairings is officially either random or the work of the gods, it's actually the philosopher-kings who make the decisions, breeding citizens according to the needs of the state.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Doctor Who Novelisations (Literature)|novel]] ''Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon'', many people on Overindustrialised Future Earth work for faceless megacorporations that "take care" of their employees, arranging their accommodation, education, and, if the Company considers it necessary, marriages. They do try to arrange compatible matches, but probably only because unhappy employees are bad for productivity, and the matching process involves a stack of employee profiles and a computer in the personnel department, as opposed to, say, people getting to meet people. One character recalls agreeing to be married as a condition of his next promotion, and then hearing no more about it until he returned from a business trip to find his new wife waiting for him in the kitchen. At first he's much more interested in his new apartment ect. but as she cheerfully chatters away, informing him that they are likely to be in debt to the Company for the rest of their lives, he notices she's very pretty....Resulting in a [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]].

* Arguably, Hermia's situation in [[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream]]. The original arrangement with Demitrius doesn't qualify, since that was arranged by her father and Theseus was just enforcing the existing law allowing an [[Arranged Marriage]]. However, once Theseus expanded his ruling to allow Hermia the option of joining a convent instead, it could be considered this trope.

* In [[Super Robot Wars Z|Super Robot Wars Z2]]: Saisei-hen, [[Code Geass (Anime)|Diethard]] attempts to marry off Tianzi again like in the series, except this time, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2s_EeYBqJI EVERY SINGLE ZEXIS woman gets on his case about it]. His expression is just awesome. Oh and one guy gets in on it too.

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'': In the episode where the family joins the Movementarians, there's a group wedding.