Analysis Of The God Of Small Things By Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is one of the most acclaimed writer and critic of twenty first century. She is a figure-head of the anti-globalization movement. The God of Small Things is the only novel written by Roy. She was awarded Bookers Prize for this book, and ever since that she has always written about political issues. She has written on diverse topics starting from Narmada Dam project to India’s Nuclear Weapons.
To understand this novel we should have a fair idea about widespread discrimination which is rampant in India on the basis of caste system. The way the untouchables are treated in India is a point of concern. They are maltreated and discriminated on every level, starting from right to education to what job they are suitable for, just because they belong to a particular strata of society. Their rights are always encroached upon by the so called higher caste people. That’s why they are called ‘Dalits’ which means ‘oppressed’. They are …show more content…
Firstly, we have socially untouchables or Parvan, who are not at all, permitted fundamental human rights. Secondly, we have emblematic untouchables in high castes. Here prejudice articulates itself in marginalizing the women in their personal and public life. In God of Small Things, the rules of India's caste system are wrecked by the characters of Ammu and Velutha, an Untouchable or Paravan. The whole episode in novel takes place in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and circles around an outlawed relationship between a Syrian Christian divorcee and mother of two children, Ammu, and a low caste carpenter, Velutha. A divorced woman is not entitled any right to pursue for happiness in life. The only itinerary open to her is to squander a static life, waiting for death. Any effort on her part to see life autonomously intimidates the existing order. She is at loggerheads with the society at large because she married outside her community and a