Arundhati Roy

critique of the institution of dowry. Thus the excerpts bring value to the whole book itself and help Roy pursue her goal of criticizing the Indian society through literature and show how outdated the concept of a dowry is. These passages have also an importance because they challenge the society in a way that dowry, a widely used tradition by the people, is depicted as old-fashioned. Arundhati Roy depicts dowry as old-fashioned when she describes the hotel “Heritage.” Author says: “The furniture and

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

Emotional Alienation in Arundhati Roy’s GOD OF SMALL THINGS By R. Sherin Infantia S. Anugraha I. M.A. English , Holy Cross College Trichy Our society has created an identity for women since ancient days. Women are considered as an weaker sex and inferior to men. Though she plays a important role in her life, she is not found as an individual human being with all emotions and sufferings. She is supposed

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

In The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy describes the destruction of Velutha, an untouchable, who is a member of the lowest social division of the Indian caste system. Velutha is marginalized and killed by police officers who help maintain the caste system in India. Roy uses imagery, alliteration, and juxtaposition to demonstrate that Velutha’s brutal death is determined by his social position. The gory imagery of Velutha’s body being broken and shattered is presented throughout this passage to

Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things presents the reader with the realities of Marxism. Roy gives the reader an impression of three possible manifestations of the ideology, rather than presenting a biased reading for or against Marxism. Through Roy’s novel the reader comes to understand Marxism as it appears through Velutha, the oppressed worker, Chacko the Marxist-in-name only, and Comrade Pillai, the corrupt politician. Comrade Pillai epitomizes the idea of a corrupt politician. During

boundary that we at least think we should not cross, but cross nonetheless. “As ye sow, ye shall reap” is a familiar proverb we have all heard at one point in our lives (Roy 31). But is it true? Do we really get what we deserve? And if so, who then decides what is right and wrong? Who draws the line? Who sets the boundary? In Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, most of the characters cross a moral boundary, we see boundaries that are accommodated, confronted and even shattered.

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities. This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections

am here to present on the topic ‘Language in Indian Writing in English’. Basically I will be talking about the usage of language, the writing style, of blending language and culture and my analysis of it in the text - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. The story of the Indian English novel is really the story of a changing India. There was a time when education was a rare opportunity and speaking English was unnecessary. The stories were already there- in the myths, in the folklore and the umpteen

In the ‘Business of War,’ Roy is stating that the U.S. government and other’s like it are purely economic in thought, and the root causes for the very terrorism that resulted in 9/11. She points out that similar and worse grief to 9/11 happens on a large-scale, with violations of human rights and wars happening as a result of the American and British forces in Iraq, who were actually an ally to Saddam Hussein until he decided to act of his own accord. She is directly stating here that America actually