Veritas in the Portrayal of Women in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Abstract

‘Women’ occupied an interesting and indispensable part of Literature from time immemorial. Since writing was in the domain of ‘men’, he was at liberty to portray women from his narrow perspective endowing the women with a set of ideals as he supposes she should possess or else she is presented as wicked, a temptress or capable of anything negative. Later on, women writers began to feel that they have been misrepresented. Men were misogynists in their representation of women in literature. The paper tries to see how far Roy’s women characters in The God of Small Things come to a true representation of women in general and she is misandry or misogynist and whether the stereotype women still exist in her novel.