Criticizing The Caste System In The God Of Small Things
Submitted by chippy549 on April 3, 2009
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Criticizing The Caste System In The God Of Small Things
Discrimination is a global issue that will never truly be solved. Whether it is seen through the hatred of race, gender or social status, some kind of prejudice will always be in existence. In that light, many writers take it upon themselves to criticize one of these topics in their novels. Arundhati Roy objects to the caste system in her novel, The God of Small Things, and shows that something that may be the status quo isn't always right. In Roy's The God of Small Things, she criticizes the caste system in India by glorifying an Untouchable and degrading a Brahman.
Velutha is a character who is considered an Untouchable, someone who is an outcast in society. Even though he...
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