Category: The God of Small Things

Throughout the world, many countries face social problems which are usually influenced by the differences between the citizens of that society. Different scenarios can be taken in place when talking about the struggle that many individuals face and that deal with the social problems that are brought upon them. When talking about the struggle that…

Ammus life reflects the ongoing struggles that women have to endure on a daily basis. The novel depicts how women have struggled to escape traditional values, patriarchy, and colonial power (Culda, 2019). Throughout the novel, there are different categories in which inequality is portrayed: gender assumption and gender stereotypes. Both of which have affected Ammus…

Only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside. The god of small things is an extremely touching rendering of the interpersonal complexities of the members of one family. It plays a game of cat-and-mouse with the boundaries of social and cultural dichotomy, contrasting it with the passionate yearnings of the…

With Roy deriving the reference of India as the Heart of Darkness from Joseph Conrads novel titled as such, it is apparent that the God of Small Things mirrors Conrads criticism on the detrimental and lasting impacts of colonialism. Sophie Mol, a clear metaphor of British powers, arrives at Ayemenem with the obsession of taming…

Neo-colonialism: A Comparative Essay We live in a neocolonial era. US military involvement in the Gulf and the Horn of Africa, structural dependency in the Caribbean and Latin America, racial discrimination of Africans, and most of Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East, multinational corporations’ worldwide hegemonies, information industries favored country treaties and trade blocs…

Arundhati Roy once in an interview said that her book, The God of Small Things is not about history but biology and transgressions. The transgressions in history began thousands of years back. ‘That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. Laws that lay down who should be loved, and how.…

The term Third World is to some degree obsolete, initially meaning nations that did not have a place with the ‘First World’ (the Western, capitalist nations) or the ‘Second World’ (the Soviet Union with socialist allies). As emphasized by Robert Young, the term Third World was considered as a positive, empowering name for an alternate…

Roy has investigated the inconveniences of divorced and widows in The God of Small Things. The destiny of divorced women also is brought to the fore in The God of Small Things. Comrade Pillai’s way to express the word as ‘Di- divorced, presents mortality to Rahel. Divorced Margaret is close to a prostitute in Mammachi’s…