The God of Small Things is the grand work of the Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy. This novel deals with many problems. It focuses the women-issues very poignantly and touchingly. It shows how women are suppressed and dominated by male-society. The result of this suppression and oppression is distorted expression of feelings and emotion. The main female characters Ammu, Rahel are the glaring examples of this. Their gloominess, the helplessness can be felt by reading the novel. The God of Small Things is a controversial novel. Arundhati Roy has demonstrated various relationships in the novel. It is also, a novel about deprivation, insecurity, isolation, insignificance and perversion. The novelist has focused many prevalent evils in the Indian society through some characters, relationships, and incidents. Mainly, she has projected the evils of patriarchal society, caste prejudice, class discrimination, sexual perversion, incest etc. She has also touched the Marxist/Naxalite issue Thus, The God of Small Things shows the glimpse of various prevalent evils in the society such as male-dominance, suppression of women, jealousy, identity-crisis, naxal movement, cast discrimination, untouchability as well as incest. There is the portrayal of various female characters. The norms and taboos of the male dominated society tried to dominate them, subjugate them. But, most of the female characters were of rebellious sprit, they did not surrender before the society. Though, they struggled severely, faced innumerable hardships and humiliation, they did not entrap themselves under the clutches of male domination. Arundhati Roy supports the indomitable and revolutionary spirits of women. Through her novels she tries to inspire women for asserting for their rights, dignity and importance in the society. She acts like a reformer of women. The subjugated as well as revolutionary attitude of women can be traced in the novel, The God of Small Things

Author Name: Dr. Bhoomika Thakur

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Keywords: Critical Space, God of Small Things, male dominated society, taboos, untouchability, discrimination, incest etc.

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