Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe | Summary & Analysis in English | African Short Story
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe | African Short Story in English | Commonwealth Literature | Summary & Analysis
Chinua Achebe wrote “Marriage is a Private Affair” in 1952, eight years before Nigeria won its independence from the British Empire. Consequently, the short story should be read with the understanding that Achebe was very much interested in the growing independence movements that were percolating in Nigeria and other nearby African nations.
Marriage is a Private Affair' is a short story by Chinua Achebe. In the story, a young man defies the conventions of his society to choose his own wife, refusing to marry the woman chosen for him by his father.
Thee title of Achebe's work, Marriage is a Private Affair, is justified in the character of Okeke. Through his own evolution and change, the father ends up learning that marriage is, indeed, a private affair but not a public affair.
In this video you will come to know the characters, outline summary, round vs flat characters, setting, narrator's point of view, style, themes, symbol and moral of this short story, Marriage is a Private Affair.
About the author:
Chinua Achebe
Born - November 16, 1930
Ogidi, Nigeria
Died - March 21, 2013 (aged 82)
Career - Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, who is regarded as the most dominant figure in modern African literature.
Notable works - Things Fall Apart, Morning Yet on Creation Day, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, Home and Exile, Arrow of God, Anthills of the Savannah, A Man of the People, Hopes and Impediments, The Education of a British-Protected Child, No Longer at Ease.
Awards and Honours - Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (1979), St. Louis Literary Award( 1999), Man Booker International Prize (2007 ), The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2010)
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