At its most formulaic, critics have asserted, the conventions of the marriage plot, with the cathartic closure that its marriage ending delivers to its believers, ultimately renounces politics and engagement in the world in favor of privacy and domestic bliss.
Critics have argued that the conventions of the marriage plot, which delivers cathartic closure to its adherents through a marriage's end, ultimately rejects politics and engagement with the world in favor of privacy and domestic tranquility.