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This paper aims to highlight and analyse marriage decline in postcolonial
literary works in the English language. The works under
consideration are Amma Darko’s Beyond the horizon and The
housemaid. Marriage decline is evident nowadays and rampant
worldwide. Decline in terms of marriage is a situation caused by the
partners or due to circumstances of the wedding. Marriage decline
in Amma Darko’s Beyond the horizon and The housemaid is
expressed through lack of love, ill-treatment, betrayal, economic
exploitation, and family dislocation. The reader-oriented theory has
been used to explore the issue of marriage decline in the present
study. As a result, marriage does not sustain in a context which the
relationships are profit-oriented and the goal of forming a peaceful
family is not a shared vision within the couple. |