Integrity of Husband Wife Relationship in A Silence of Desire

Abstract

When the husband wife relationship is whole and undivided they are in integrity. Kamala Markandaya's novel A Silence of Desire presents a story of a couple which undergoes many problems arisen because a silence is not well understood in the beginning. This paper deals with the quality of integrity in relationship as depicted in the novel. The couple possesses certain values which empowers them in the course of life but at times they hinders their way to achieve the integrity of the relationship. Rationalism, spiritualism, modernism, traditionalism are contradicted with each other. The present paper is an attempt to present the treatment of integrity in the relation between the husband and the wife as given by the author.