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The God Of Small Things Patriarchy Analysis

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Getting rid of the shackles across generations: a postcolonial feminist study of Arundhati Roy’s The God Of Small Things This paper attempts to explore the various forms and issues related to patriarchy and its influence on the women in Arundhati Roy’s debut novel The God of Small Things. Published in 1997, The God of Small Things, “An intricate , clever , skillfully constructed story which overwhelms by its exuberance and its verbal virtuosity” (Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year), is a story about women trying to reclaim their rights ( each in a different way ) by fighting against the old Indian restricted traditions imposed by society. The story demonstrates the life of seven-year old ‘two-egg twins’ Estha and Rahel, their mother Ammu and the maternal family in Ayemenem, Kerela in 1969. The family is described by patriarchy which reigns over .Winning the book prize in 1997; Arundhati Roy faced a lot of criticism of different kind. One of the important critics compared Roy to Selman Rushdie1 and that he had an impact on her. It is obvious to be influenced by Rushdie, as being famous in young …show more content…

The purpose of writing The God of Small Things is to show the unjust, male-dominated society that treats women and low cast people awfully according to the social norms that determine how everyone should be treated. Critic Tapan Kumar Ghosh in “Tomorrow Will Never Die: Arundhati Roy’s Tryst with History in The God of Small Things” states:“Her focus is on the small, individual lives of men and women who, without any heroic pretensions, break the long-cherished social taboos and tamper with the rules that lay down the social codes of behavior” (Ghosh 186) qtd in Anuma. It relates the novel to the reality of India, projecting light on the ‘unnoticeable’ people who suffer the cruel injustice, in an attempt to draw attention to the victims of the community and to change it to the

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