Question

How is the title marriage is a private affair ironic

Answer 1

The title "Marriage is a Private Affair" is ironic because the title and what actually happened in the story is situational. The whole village knew about the affair, but the book title states, "Marriage is a private affair", so therefore Ironic.

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Answer 2

Marriage is a formal bond between two people, who promised to love and have a relationship with each other to the exclusion of others. An"affair" in this context is a relationship between two people by definition outside of wedlock, and is often the term applied when someone is breaking their marriage vows and having a relationship with a third party i.e having an "affair". Therefore the author is being ironic by calling "marriage a private affair" as it is not an " affair " in the above context at all, and using the other sense of the word affair justified by the word private. 


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