Examples Of Feminism In God Of Small Things

The novel is divided into two sections, referred to as part one and part two. the first section of the novel portrays the everyday life of an Indian family with their daughter Uma as the main character of the section. Throughout part one of the novel, the author tries to take the reader into a journey across the Indian social practices and family relationship. She does this through the way she portrays different members of the Indian family and other individuals who are depicted as different members of the Indian society. In this section, the reader can see the family structure, family members responsibilities, and expectations from other members of the family and the society in general. Apart from showing the reader the family life, she also tries to present situations and topics that show the reader some important issues regarding the Indian educational system and the society attitudes

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, a twisting tale seemingly centered on a case of family tragedy, unravels to form a critique on rigid social structures. This renders Iser’s quote significant to a huge extent, as proven by the novel’s fragmented narrative. By building the narrative around a crucial lack of information, readers are pushed to engage thoroughly with the text, as they have to piece together the jigsaw pieces that make up the story, so as to make complete sense of it, henceforth enabling a better understanding of the ‘explicit’ when the ‘implicit’ comes to light. In doing so, “the meaning of the text comes alive in the reader’s imagination” (Bennett 1682) - through the readers’ realization that the seemingly irrelevant,

This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.

Within the time his wife flies back to India, Dev has the opportunity to toy with Miranda. He becomes the first to “reach across a table… to kiss her hand…, to bring her a bouquet of flowers so immense she’d had to split it up into all six of her drinking glasses, and the first to whisper her name again and again when they made love.” There is a significant contrast of inexperience to maturity when Miranda compares her high school love life to Dev. She becomes seduced by his exoticness and his ability to broaden her connections, which causes her crave more. Blinded by this unjaded infatuation, Miranda attempts to incorporate more of the Bengali culture into her lifestyle. Miranda proceeds to change her identity in the name of love when she learns “to write the Indian part of her name”, “tastes new foods”, and essentially

In Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things the characters must try to understand the explicit and implicit boundaries surrounding their lives. The protagonists Estha and Rahel, a set of fraternal twins struggle with the boundary between their lives and the past. Through almost a century of westernization, India’s past and culture had become flooded with the ideologies of the West. As the twins try to understand their past, they end up seeing history finally catch up with Velutha an Untouchable that worked for their family. He then must endure the consequences of breaking the Love Laws. Despite the characters attempt to escape the boundaries that the past has created over time, in the end they must eventually accept that history has a mind of

In the article the author makes an argument that how Indian women and their renaissance in terms of social status started much earlier before the modern world. She mentions names of women like Gargi and Maetri who were philosophers and how they are mentioned with pride in the vedic time and how the concept of “Brahmavadinis” in which a woman devotes her life towards studies has been there in India since ancient times. According to her, this tradition though not universally popular continued with Andals, Akka Mahadevis and Meeras who played a major role in shaping our culture, art and civilization. These women pave the way for women like Rani Jhansi, Rani Padmini and ultimately the first female prime minister Indira Gandhi which is unique for India in many ways.

Mistry demonstrates how the characters’ defiance of traditional Indian gender roles creates a line of causalities that ultimately determine the character’s path. Mistry contextualizes these gender roles when he describes that, “It was hard for [wives] not to be resentful - the birth of daughters often brought them beatings from their husbands and their husband's families” (Mistry 100). The author includes this quote to demonstrate the considerably large extent to which males hold power and priority in Indian society, thus making women nearly impotent with the exception of Dina, which may explain why the author gives her a central role in the novel. Therefore, the defiance of gender roles - which the society in which they live considers as a crime since the values of misogyny have invaded their worldview - is dangerous, but represented in the character of Dina Dalal. Dina was quickly widowed, but Mistry depicts her as a strong woman who struggles to keep her independence in a society that expects her to be subordinate to another man. Even after many years since her husband’s death, Dina’s brother, Nusswan, compares her life to “watching

ManjuKapur’s novel enables the readers to get an idea of the feminists struggle against partialities. This story is striking a balance between a natural co-existence on the one hand and unbound freedom and space on the other, Kapur’s powerful tale of women’s issues are usually accepted both Indian and universal. Manju Kapur is the most talked about and appreciated contemporary Indian English woman novelist. Her novel claims that the world she portrays has the stems from the intellectual experience of her academic life. Her basic approach is to liberate women from the cruel measures of patriarchy.

Literature is the reflection of the society. It has major impact on the development of society, political system, culture, and civilization. Manju Kapur,in her novel presens the problem of the Indian women in the male- dominated society. Manju Kapur vividly shows the importance of education and freedom for Indian women. Through the character of Virmati, the protagonist of the novel, Manju Kapur makes the society aware of women's inner conflict and the cultural diversion in their life. She proves herself that there is no hierarchical division from male to express her 'self'. The women characters in this novel have explored themselves to establish an identity, not imposed by the male patriarchal society. Based on these perceptions many Indian

R.K. Narayan is not a feminist even then he has shown his sympathy for the exploited and oppressed class of women in Indian society. The helplessness and miserable condition of a Hindu housewife is brought to the forefront in Narayan’s The Dark Room. In an interview Narayan explained, “In The Dark Room I was concerned with showing the utter dependence of women on man in society. I suppose I have moved along with the times.”1

The Post-colonial experiences have made the relationships of families much more difficult due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their home and the struggles and troublesome difficulties they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land, made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’, the Kochamma family is a family of tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that lead them to the tragedy. However, the theme within the novel is of the people oppressed by the colonisation of India especially by England, and how a society is consumed with prejudices based on class or caste and color that begin to turn on itself, and

Manjukapur is a well known feminist writer in India and Abroad. In her third novel “Home’’ she reveals many questions against the traditions, identity, marital problems, struggle for existence and future and settled as a migrant. The theme of the novel is the joint families can destroy, lack of mental peace and perish and preserve the understanding and going on searching for identity and individuality .Banwarilal has two sons Yashpal and pyare lal . Sona and Rupa are co-sisters.sona’s daughters Nisha. Nisha refused traditional marriage. Nisha wants empowerment and bright colorful life. Nisha wants identity, a valued life , secured achievement and career. So in end the middle class woman cannot cross and escape from the traditional values which are bound by society.

The present article depicted how far Githa Hariharan had succeeded in picturizing the concept of womanhood and describing the relevance of this concept in the modern Indian society. It attempted to delineate how women dealt with the sanction of space in Indian society. Her novels presented the efforts of patriarchy on women of different social classes and ages particularly the varied responses to the restrictive institution of marriage especially in The Thousand Faces of Night. Through her novels Hariharan contrasted the role and position of women in our society. Gita Hariharan delineated the concepts of woman in a traditional society and the responsibilities and services expected from women.

It holds a mirror to the society and the issues focused upon are something every Indian woman is familiar with irrespective of her nativity. The author has talked about a myriad of issues ranging from patriarchy, child marriage to widow remarriage and marital rape. The novel also talks about the conservative and misogynistic ways in which our society works. A pre-pubescent girl is refused education for the fear of being left alone as all her friends had started menstruating and did not attend school anymore. A divorced woman who dared to voice her disagreement with the groom chosen for her by her family is almost driven to suicide by her own mother, fearing shame and disrespect in the society. A girl is married off to a man decades older to her just because her father lost a game of cards to that man. To keep family’s relations and honour intact, a teenage girl is married off to her cousin and is raped by him, all the while having to respect her father-in-law who also leaves no chance to harass her sexually. The novel gives us a true and honest account of Muslim women of Tamil

The role that women play in the development of this book is very important. They have unique personalities, intentions, and attitudes towards men. They are all different, but they are the essence and the true definition of utter beauty and idolization of women.