The god of small things is her debut novel and is also a semi-autobiographical novel. Her father Rajib Roy, was a Bengali Hindu and her mother Mary Roy, was a Syrian Christian. She was born on 24 November 1961 in Meghalaya, India. KEY WORDS: Marriage, Chauvinism, Relationships, Indifferent and PatriarchalįEMINISM IN ARUNDHATHI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGSĪrundhati Roy is one of the towering stars in the firmament of Indian fiction in English. Through this novel, she throws light on some important things of life like how love is always associated with sadness, how a person’s childhood experiences affect his/her perspectives and whole life. Her female characters in the novel The God of Small Things stands out as persons and not as role-players. Arundhati has taken up the issue of feminism to fight for their identity and economic and social freedom. She has beautifully and effectively shown the plight of women in Indian society. The paper seeks to study the work of Arundhati Roy, ‘The God of Small Things’ as a text of ‘feminine writing’. The research paper has been attempted to explore the elements of Feminism in Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’. Feminism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Thingsīy – K Sheeba (introduction at the end of the paper), Vol.
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