Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Revelation of Feminine Perspectives

Abstract

Abstract

Feminist scholars argue that disparity in writing is one of their chief means to cross-examine patriarchal ascendancy. The God of Small Things reveals the human race of Ayemenem house as full of such contraventions, both in terms of ethics as well as proceedings. Ammu and Rahel both challenges the ideals made obligatory on their very being and finds their own ways to reside. Both of them marry without the blessing of their relatives and go for divorce audaciously. Arundhati Roy in the novel has tried to critique and subvert even the behavioural code and matrix of strict gendered roles. In The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy reveals the very essence of Ecriture feminine. She has revealed in an apt manner how times gone by and customs always suppresses women over their right to themselves. She has refined a place for the woman by subverting linear discourse and Phallogocentric closure.