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    recognition and was published in different languages. The God of small things mainly focused the condition of life in a single family but it has a global messages and global awareness on male hegemony and caste Discrimination in India. In her book The God of Small things she has written the story which is the reflection of male dominated society and how female are exploited by male during the centuries. The God of Small things is the clear example of the argument where she has shown that women

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    The“God of Small Things is a debut novel of Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins. Their lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws” that lay down “who should be loved, and how. And how much”. (1998: 168) The novel explores how the small things affect people’s behaviour and their lives. It is the history-through-hear-say of a family of Syrian Christians in Kerala. It looks at everything in the spirit of comedy. There is a lot of a devastatingly, sardonically,

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    Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

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    society with special reference to women. The novel throws light on some important things of life like how love is always associated with sadness, how a person’s childhood experiences affect his/her perspectives and whole life. The novel shows the ugly face of people and society as a whole, a vivid description of the black and sarcastic world especially with reference to women that dwells around us. The God of small thins highlights the position of women folk in India. It presents before us the

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    to post-colonial societies, especially in the case of India in Roy’s God of Small Things, a society which the British Empire has held hostage. The Ipe family is captivated by British culture, placing it on a pedestal far above their own and further augmenting the supposedly abolished Caste System. The Communist movement that arises in Ayemenem after British rule comes in direct conflict with this Anglophilia. God of Small Things exemplifies the destructive way in which rigid class structure undermines

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    The God of Small Things opens with memories of a family mourn around a drowned child’s sarcophagus. There are countless examples of miserable sequences in the novel. Throughout the story, all characters are portrayed in a very sympathetic manner. The reader gets morally strenuous and remains perplexed all the way at its agonizing finish. The God of Small Things is a family saga taking of a remote village in central Travancore region of South Kerala, the rustic idyll set in the author’s childhood

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    This paper deals with the emotional alienation in Arundhati Roy’s The god of Small Things. Our society has created an identity for women since ancient days. Women are considered as a weaker sex and inferior to men. Though she plays an important role in her life, she is not found as an individual human being with all emotions and sufferings. She is supposed to live a life of dedication, surrendering and devotion. In Indian fiction, the women are modeled with the above qualities. Those qualities of

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    applies to driving a car, riding a bike, or moving in any kind of fast-paced setting because if one crosses lines they end up hurt, hurting someone else, or worse. The God of Small Things reveals to readers that staying in your lane can mean the difference between living and dying. The opening quote of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things not only reveals the purpose of the novel, but it impacts the characters actions in colonial Indian society. John Berger states, “Never again will a single story be

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    Surname 3 Student’s name Professor’s name Subject Date Feminism in the Novel God of Small Things The development feminism in India has prompted the scrutinizing of the conspicuous old patriarchal control. The ladies of today decline to be manikins in the hands of men. Henceforth the picture of ladies has experienced an intense change. The Indian female authors have made a move from the conventional depictions of persevering generous ladies to delineation of their inward life and inconspicuous relational

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    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

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    My research paper argues that Ammu, the central character of Arundhati Roy’s Man Booker Prize Winning novel The God of Small Things, whose tragic and alienated life is ubiquitously echoed throughout the novel and her life and destiny are akin to those whose voice always gets muffled. Man suffers spilt within himself via-à-is the society in which he is accidentally born. It is this breach or displacement that occasions many a tension and lifelong struggle. Industrial revolution and the advancement

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