Essays on The God of Small Things

The twins in the novel, Estha and Rahel, grow up having no father figure beside them. As the result these two children, probably would have never experienced the castration anxiety like that which other unexceptional kids go through on their third developmental stage between the…

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is one of the towering stars in the firmament of post-colonial Indian writing in English. Her fame flourished not only as the first non-expatriate Indian to win the Booker Award, but also as an environmentalist and social activist. As a novelist she…

The God of Small Things is entangled with women characters rather than male characters. Arundhati Roy concentrates on the provoked lives of women, their insignificant attitudes and the disguised cultural entities. Roy explicates the wide horizon of cultural and traditional domination suffered by women through…

The author often uses dreams and thought as instruments in her novel, to help make readers clear about the unconscious condition of the mind of the characters. The psychological effects of all the major characters in the novel are distinct. The twins’s mother constantly dreams…

With Roy deriving the reference of India as the Heart of Darkness from Joseph Conrad’s novel titled as such, it is apparent that the God of Small Things mirrors Conrad’s criticism on the detrimental and lasting impacts of colonialism. Sophie Mol, a clear metaphor of…

Contemporary English fiction has attained international recognition and fame with the publications of numerous remarkable writers like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Sethi, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai and Arundhati Roy. Arundhati Roy, through her writing, seems to hold up…

In The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, the novel takes place in postcolonial India where an outlawed caste system still dictates India’ society. The premise of the caste system is to separate the lower class, or the Untouchables, from the upper class, and…

In “The God of Small Things” by Anundhuti Roy, there are two opposing forces in various forms effecting each character. There is the “Small Thing” which constitute literally small things in nature but also the small things in life like secrets. “Big Things” include the…