Ammuâs life reflects the ongoing struggles that women have to endure on a daily basis. The novel depicts how women have struggled to âescape traditional values, patriarchy, and colonial powerâ (Culda, 2019). Throughout the novel, there are different categories in which inequality is portrayed: gender assumption and gender stereotypes. Both of which have affected Ammuâs life extensively. This essay aims to examine how Ammuâs life was affected by gender inequality and âdouble standardsâ throughout the novel The God of Small...
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With Roy deriving the reference of India as the âHeart of Darknessâ from Joseph Conradâs novel titled as such, it is apparent that the God of Small Things mirrors Conradâs criticism on the detrimental and lasting impacts of colonialism. Sophie Mol, a clear metaphor of British powers, arrives at Ayemenem with the obsession of âtamingâ the east, which is portrayed as inferior and backward. Her drowning and subsequent death are thus symbolic of the British Empireâs eventual failure to exert...
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The term Third World is to some degree obsolete, initially meaning nations that did not have a place with the ‘First World’ (the Western, capitalist nations) or the ‘Second World’ (the Soviet Union with socialist allies). As emphasized by Robert Young, the term Third World was considered as a positive, empowering name for an alternate point of view on âpolitical, economic, and cultural global prioritiesâ than the transcendent enraptured world with capitalism on the one side and Soviet communism on...
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Roy has investigated the inconveniences of divorced and widows in The God of Small Things. The destiny of divorced women also is brought to the fore in The God of Small Things. Comrade Pillai’s way to express the word as ‘Di- divorced, presents mortality to Rahel. Divorced Margaret is close to a prostitute in Mammachi’s eyes. Baby Kochamma’s frame of mind towards isolated Ammu is typically Indian. Indian culture occasionally acknowledges widowhood sympathetically, however not a divorced woman. A widow...
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Throughout the world, many countries face social problems which are usually influenced by the differences between the citizens of that society. Different scenarios can be taken in place when talking about the struggle that many individuals face and that deal with the social problems that are brought upon them. When talking about the struggle that people deal with, the caste system can be shown with the contrast of how an entire country can be responsible for the creation of a...
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The detrimental effects of patriarchal oppression are reinforced through a sense of cultural imprisonment and the innate desire for love. Through the use of separate contextual frames of 1820s puritanical Iceland and 1960s post-colonialist India, Arundhati Roy and Hannah Kent in their main novels demonstrate a joint idea of perpetual male dominance invading each aspect of a womanâs life. Kent and Roy reveal their own critical perspectives on the definitive barriers that shape these patriarchal societies which are ironically believed...
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Abstract Misuse of power and authority is a very dangerous dilemma of mankind. The class system is the main reason behind this uneven distribution of power among upper and lower class. As Karl Marx divides it into two classes, first one is upper class which is called the Bourgeoisie and second class Is The proletariat. This paper is an attempt to explore the connection between crime and power in the subcontinent. This paper explores debut novels of Mohsin Hamid and...
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Only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside. The god of small things is an extremely touching rendering of the interpersonal complexities of the members of one family. It plays a game of cat-and-mouse with the boundaries of social and cultural dichotomy, contrasting it with the passionate yearnings of the human conscience. In the desolate village of Ayemenem in Kerala in the 1960s, with communism and modern ideologies rattling the age-old social customs, Roy weaves...
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Neo-colonialism: A Comparative Essay We live in a neocolonial era. US military involvement in the Gulf and the Horn of Africa, structural dependency in the Caribbean and Latin America, racial discrimination of Africans, and most of Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East, multinational corporations’ worldwide hegemonies, information industries favored country treaties and trade blocs that exacerbate economic differences, a range of internecine conflicts tacitly backed by former colonial powers, widespread corruption in sponsored authoritarian governments across the so-called Third...
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Arundhati Roy once in an interview said that her book, The God of Small Things is not about history but biology and transgressions. The transgressions in history began thousands of years back. ‘That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. Laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much. (The God of Small Things, 33) The scholars who read the novel might doubt that why should Christians be more concerned about...
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Arundhati Royâs casting of linguistic and stylistic frenzy in her debut novel God of Small Things paved the way to establish her reputation as one of the celebrated writers of the twenty-first century as the novel successfully grabbed Booker Prize in 1997. The dynamic handling of syntactic fusion, code-switching, use of regional language, inter-language expressions, glossing, usage of short sentences, neologism make God of Small Things a representative text of stylistic innovation. Due to the emergence of stylistics as a...
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