The God Of Small Things Analysis
The Post-colonial experiences has made the relationships of families much more difficult due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their homeland and the struggles they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land, made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’, the Kochamma family is a family of tragic situations and tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that lead to the tragedy. However, the theme within the novel is of the people oppressed by the colonisation of India especially by England, and how a society is consumed with prejudices based on class or caste and colour that begin to turn on itself, and
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The fragmentation of families in the post-colonial experience will only cease when the fragmentation of their country and culture has been ratified, and the shameful mindset of the colonized victim is shed from their minds and they are able to find respect and the future in their own customs, culture and …show more content…
The discussion has been formulated against issues like identity, hybridity, cultural differences and conflict. Roy’s novel, even though complex, incoherent and fragmented, conveys a deeper meaning that runs into notions regarding human perspectives, values and attitudes of a post colonial nation. The relation between India and English has been a long and troublesome one. In India, the cultural impact of imperialism dominated the urban class and westernized upper and lower middle classes. The women writers of post colonial India are influenced from backgrounds and their writings reflected their experiences.. When Sophie Mol, Rahel and Estha’s cousin comes down from London, Mammachi (their grandmother) is extremely apprehensive about her grandchildren’s ability to speak English fluently. She surreptitiously listens to the twins speaking and punished them if they spoke in Malayalam or if they made mistakes while speaking in English. Their cousin was presented to them as their ideal. She is constantly compared to Rahel and Estha, leaving them depressed and embittered. Their English cousin is loved from the beginning even before she arrives and when she died the loss of her became more important than her memory. Hybridity occurs in colonial societies both
The fragmentation of families in the post-colonial experience will only cease when the fragmentation of their country and culture has been ratified, and the shameful mindset of the colonized victim is shed from their minds and they are able to find respect and the future in their own customs, culture and …show more content…
The discussion has been formulated against issues like identity, hybridity, cultural differences and conflict. Roy’s novel, even though complex, incoherent and fragmented, conveys a deeper meaning that runs into notions regarding human perspectives, values and attitudes of a post colonial nation. The relation between India and English has been a long and troublesome one. In India, the cultural impact of imperialism dominated the urban class and westernized upper and lower middle classes. The women writers of post colonial India are influenced from backgrounds and their writings reflected their experiences.. When Sophie Mol, Rahel and Estha’s cousin comes down from London, Mammachi (their grandmother) is extremely apprehensive about her grandchildren’s ability to speak English fluently. She surreptitiously listens to the twins speaking and punished them if they spoke in Malayalam or if they made mistakes while speaking in English. Their cousin was presented to them as their ideal. She is constantly compared to Rahel and Estha, leaving them depressed and embittered. Their English cousin is loved from the beginning even before she arrives and when she died the loss of her became more important than her memory. Hybridity occurs in colonial societies both