HUMAN EQUATIONS IN ARUNDHATI ROY'S 'THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS'

Dave Rajan Krushnakant, Dr. Mukund L. Revadivala

Abstract


Arundhati Roy, a prolific fiction writer was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for literature in 1997 for the novel The God of Small Things which earned fame for her worldwide. She has depicted vivid portrayal of contemporary social life of India in it. The novel attempts Man-Woman relationships with particular and peculiar angles of equations. Three generations of women have been represented in it to find out their roots of identity and existence. In the gradual growth of the story one can also find some traces of feminine cult of woman empowerment.    


Keywords


Society, Equation, Relation, Struggle

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References


Lawrence, D. H., Morality and the Novel, 20th Century Literary Criticism, ed. David Lodge, London: Longman Group Ltd, 1972, p. 130.

Bhattacharjee, Archana. Reflection of Social Ethos, New Delhi: Authors Press. 2016. p. 70.

Pathak, R. S., The Fictional World of Arundhati Roy, New Delhi: Creative Books, 2001.

Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things, New Delhi: India Ink, 1997. (References to the Text are from this edition and have been indicated by page numbers in parentheses.)


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