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Short story The force of circumstance by William Somerst Maugham in 1928

W. Somerset Maugham’s "The Force of Circumstance" explores the emotional and moral breakdown of a British colonial marriage in Malaya. The story follows Doris, whose idealized perception of her husband, Guy, is shattered when he confesses to having a long-term past relationship and children with a local Malay woman. Maugham utilizes this conflict to critique the rigid moral hypocrisy of the British colonial class, contrasting Doris’s inflexible idealism with the messy "force of circumstance" that shaped Guy’s life in isolation. Ultimately, Doris’s inability to reconcile her values with the colonial reality leads to her departure, symbolizing the failure of Western moral structures to adapt to the complex, hybrid identities of the colonial world.