LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:6 June 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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The God of Small Things: Representation of Violence

Ram Prasad Adhikari, Ph.D. Candidate

Abstract

In her novel The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy represents violence as the problem in raising the voices of protest. She has written essays protesting against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. She attacks the use of nuclear weapons, which could end in the dislocation of millions, through the Narmada dam project. Her novel is analyzed as the portrayal of violence against the weaker sections of Indian society such as women, children, lower-caste, the powerless and the poor. Roy has powerfully represented violence through the intelligent imitation of social happenings. The tragic murder of the male protagonist represents the prototype of the socio-political violence against the lower-caste. Ammu is rejected for her love affair with the lower caste. Her tragic death represents the suffering of women. In a nutshell, Roy raises the voice of protest against the domestic as well as the socio-political violence which in turn is universally appealing.

Keywords: representation, domestic violence and socio-political violence

Introduction

Non-expatriate Indian woman writer and social activist Arundhati Roy was born on 24 November 1961, in Meghalaya, one of the states of North-East India and was educated in Kerala, a state of South India. She moved to Delhi for higher studies and joined the Delhi School of Architecture. She has worked as a film designer, actor and screen-play writer. Meanwhile, she wrote her first novel The God of Small Things which was first published in 1997 and became tremendously successful. She is the first Indian woman to win Britain's premier Booker Prize for it. In addition, she has also received the Lannan Foundation Award 2002, Noam Chomsky Award 2003, Norman Mailer Prize 2011 for her literary works and Sidney Peace Award 2004 for the promotion of human rights and non-violence.

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Ram Prasad Adhikari, Ph.D. Candidate
Associate Professor (English)
Shri Swami Bhumanand College of Nursing
Ranipur Jhal
Jwalapur 249407
Haridwar
Urrarakhand
rpa25dec@yahoo.com
ram40adhikari@gmail.com
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