Social Realism and Women’s Voices in Arranged Marriage

A subset of realism called social realism aims to accurately
depict society. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the
emergence of social realism as a literary movement in response to the
social and economic injustices brought about by urbanization and
industrialization. This essay illustrates how the institution of marriage
causes men and women to become unequal in today's society. The
saddest part of this is that it still exists in many developing countries
and in the minds of underrated people. The theory behind the social
realism movement is that by producing work that portrays the
problems of the real world authors can encourage people to address
social issues. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, a diasporic writer, who
always struggles to portray the real life scenario of the society
especially around the struggling women. This is how she depicted the
life of a woman through the marriage in the novel “Arranged
Marriage”.