What marriage means in literature, why writers keep returning to it, and the 17 works in the StoryBites library that explore it.
Marriage in literature is rarely just romance; it is an institution — economic, social, and moral — where love collides with money, family, and power. The marriage plot asks who a person may love, and at what price.
Marriage concentrates a whole society's rules into one relationship, letting a writer examine class, gender, and freedom through two people at a dinner table.
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