Wedding At The Cross

Ngugi wa Thiong’o via his work “Wedding at the Cross” introduces a forthright story about colonization, loss of self, and identity. Through Wariuki and Miriamu, he reveals ways in which our “socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of our experience”. Despite Miriamu’s economic and social family status, she seeks to find a true understanding of self. Wariuki, on the other hand, who came from poverty sometimes even satirizing his white bosses, became the very thing he hated. Although, because of the initial jovial tone, despite the embarrassment of Wariuki, it may appear to a reader as though Ngugi wa Thiong’o was using moral criticism to construct the piece. As the story continues though it becomes evident that Marxist criticism was used in constructing the piece because of the material dialectal type of thinking that Thiong’o demonstrated. This paper argues that the two main characters, Miriamu and Wariuki’s, unambiguous presentation in Ngugi’s …show more content…
Livingston Jr. he becomes obsessed with becoming like Miriamu’s father fascinated with the privilege and wealth that remains after colonialism to exact vengeance for the dehumanization and belittling castration that he was forced to experience at its hands. This reason alone is a good reason for why this story cannot be depicted as Psychoanalytic because he was aware of the vengeance that he wanted. He even conformed to a religion, at first his religion was making love to Miriamu but upon becoming wealthy he began going to church slowly becoming what Miriamu wanted to escape. He didn’t care about other oppressed African American when he couldn’t find any jobs for a while black oppression didn’t even come to mind he was so hell bent on D. Jones that whites and Indians didn’t even matter. He lost himself in trying to increase his economic status based on one incident between a man that was a part of a higher economic