Female Identity and Marginalization in the God of Small Things: A Review | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Arundhati Roy’s The Good of Small Things is a rare work of fiction which has made a significant impact in Indian English Literature in recent years. She is one of the few Indian English writers enthusiastically interested in contemporary socio-political issues which are adequately documented in a number of articles, interviews and books she authored on various topics in recent years. Indian history, politics, caste distinction, and suppression woman and her independence as human being, all these distinct elements are brought together by Roy, to shed vivid light on the plight of women and how they live under oppressive forces including their relationships with men who control them. There is no exaggeration to say that women are treated as an object of lust and sexual gratification. They are robbed of basic amenities of life. They are forced to live in a system of social structure and practices in which men dominate, oppress, and exploit women. This present paper is an attempt to have a review of female identity and marginalization in Roy’s God of Small Thing, which has been widely acclaimed as an important book of the post-modernist literary trend