Mankind exerts its dominance on vulnerable individuals by placing requisites that declare our sense of justice and our condemnation of wrongs. The brutal standards deemed to be a necessity simply showcase our shallow and superfluous nature; however, society’s encouragement of exertion of superlative standards for others propels the individuals who perpetuate the same conventions. These standards ultimately shatter the lives of the vulnerable individuals in society, propagating their downfall. This notion is prevalent in a novel published by an Indian activist, Arundhati Roy. In Arundhati Roy’s novel The God Of Small Things, the societal standards of India’s once sacrosanct caste system and the disregard for women’s rights dehumanize the twins,
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Velutha is a clear representation of the effects of both dishonesty and rebellion in society that harms not only those involved but innocent bystanders such as Velutha himself. Furthermore, Sophie Mol, the English cousin, loses her life while trying to help her cousins escape following Ammu’s breakdown due to her broken relationship with Velutha. However, the existence of such standards does not only exist in India. They are prevalent in different shapes and forms across the globe. The LGBTQ society faces these repercussions daily as they struggle in the United States to gain the rights to legally marry and gain acceptance in society, demonstrating that these issues are prevalent not only in our current time period, but also 50 years ago, during the initial setting of the novel. Roy ultimately argues for an egalitarian society by her imagery and dominance exerted throughout her unique novel. The complexity of the setting of the novel contributes to Roy’s goal to describe the deep characterization of the family. She stresses imagery – Pappachi’s moth, Frozen time, Sophie Mol’s death – repeatedly to emphasize on the destruction that these standards prove. The standards are introduced when Sophie Mol’s death is revealed as well as Pappachi abusing Mammachi for having a job and being prosperous, which defies social norms. Roy describes the once prominent rigid laws that were prevalent in the 20th century and before, and her activism brought awareness to these negative attributes of society. The societal standards of the love laws, caste system, and gender equality contributed to not only the downfall, but the tragic death of people and their relationships – amorous or
Velutha is a clear representation of the effects of both dishonesty and rebellion in society that harms not only those involved but innocent bystanders such as Velutha himself. Furthermore, Sophie Mol, the English cousin, loses her life while trying to help her cousins escape following Ammu’s breakdown due to her broken relationship with Velutha. However, the existence of such standards does not only exist in India. They are prevalent in different shapes and forms across the globe. The LGBTQ society faces these repercussions daily as they struggle in the United States to gain the rights to legally marry and gain acceptance in society, demonstrating that these issues are prevalent not only in our current time period, but also 50 years ago, during the initial setting of the novel. Roy ultimately argues for an egalitarian society by her imagery and dominance exerted throughout her unique novel. The complexity of the setting of the novel contributes to Roy’s goal to describe the deep characterization of the family. She stresses imagery – Pappachi’s moth, Frozen time, Sophie Mol’s death – repeatedly to emphasize on the destruction that these standards prove. The standards are introduced when Sophie Mol’s death is revealed as well as Pappachi abusing Mammachi for having a job and being prosperous, which defies social norms. Roy describes the once prominent rigid laws that were prevalent in the 20th century and before, and her activism brought awareness to these negative attributes of society. The societal standards of the love laws, caste system, and gender equality contributed to not only the downfall, but the tragic death of people and their relationships – amorous or