The Ugly Reality of Life with Special Reference to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Abstract

The present research paper with “The Ugly Reality of Life” in Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things is a very large problem in the novel in post-colonial literature. Taking this idea the paper tries to explore the ugly reality of life of three generations of women in the novel. Here the struggle for existence of women is presented skillfully by Arundhati Roy. Roy’s novel The God of Small Things is stunning tale of women who have been placed at margin of society. She has shown keen awareness of problems of women through her writing. She rightly explains forth how women become victims of violence exploitation, alienation and exile. She was divorced from an alcoholic husband, mother of twins has disastrous love affair with untouchable. Caste segregation Betrayal love, political issues, historical realities, social discrimination, forbidden love are major ugly theme in the novel in the end of the novel she was found dead alone in a grimy room in lodge at age of thirty one.