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The God Of Small Things Critical Analysis

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This paper tries to look over and pull out the exploitation of the marginalization and the

conscientious voice which echoes towards the marginalized society and also captures social

values prevailing in Arundhati Roy’s novel “The God of Small Things”. This novel is Arundhati

Roy's first and only novel to date. It is semi-autobiographical in that it incorporates, embellishes

and greatly supplements events from her family's history. The story all along revolves in and

around Ayemenem a small village in Kerala

This novel deftly describes the discrimination of class, culture, gender and caste, but also

evaluates sociologically. The view of the author is brought to the fore and her concern for Small

Things like the neglected section …show more content…

Destruction in one

sphere naturally impacts the other often this process of dispossession and displacement can be

painful and violent

The God of small things highlights the position of women folk in India. It presents before us the

constant struggle of women against their never-ending exploitation, torture and struggle which

they undergo because of the male dominated conservative society. Intrinsically this novel is an

argument for and against the good and evil in society with special reference to the marginalized.

The novel begins with the story of a lady (Ammu) who desperately wants to get away from her

ill-tempered father and finally she gets away to stay with her aunt in Calcutta and there she

marries a man, who assists in the tea estate. But her marriage was unsuccessful and she returns

home with her twin children, Estha (boy) and Rahel (Girl). On her return, apart from her mother

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and brother, they have their aunt (Baby) who is her father’s sister staying with them. Ammu`s

brother gets married to an English women whom he fell in love with at college and they have a

daughter named Sophie. The novel revolves around these characters and the life they live

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