A Review of Legal Institutions and Family Values in “Morpho Eugenia”
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Abstract
Family law refers to the set of rules and regulations that regulate family relationships. Investigating the role of moral values as one of the shaping elements of family law rules is the main topic of this article. This research aims to address moral values as one of the foundations of law, especially family law, by expressing the concept of moral values, the foundations of law, and the ways to discover the causes and foundations of family law. The paper deals with Antonia Susan Byatt’s fiction and its contemplation. Particularly we dwell on the author’s devices for constructing a gender-marked text. The novelty of the research undertaken is justified by the methods used. We predominantly focus on the genre and narrative strategies appealed to by A.S. Byatt, especially on how they influence on the family values’ representation in Morpho Eugenia. The analysis of structural and semantic as well as ideological and thematic levels of the text through the prism of the narrative strategies allows revealing the writer’s ambiguous opinion on family issues and their viewing. Our study has demonstrated that the ethical side of the issue in the story of a family couple and their interrelationship is eliminated. In the way how Byatt portrays the story of incest the emphasis is transferred to the readers’ level of perception in the communicative chain interconnecting the reader with the author and her text.