In acquiring an ideology of human dignity and social equality. Social Discrimination through forced segregation or physical isolation. The present research paper assesses (Herbert Blumers, 1969 69) theory of social movement from the point of three dimensions in Arundhati’s novel - The God of Small Things. Through this novel, she throws light on some important things of life like how love is always associated with sadness, how a person's childhood experiences affect his/her perspectives and whole life. Her female characters in the novel The God of Small Things stand out as persons and not as role-players. The suffering of women and which they u Arundhati has taken up the issue of feminism to fight for their identity and economic and social freedom. She has beautifully and effectively shown the plight of women in Indian society which they undergo because of orthodoxy and obsolete customs and traditions. Moreover the paper seeks to study the work of Arundhati Roy's 'The God of Small Things as a text of 'feminine writing'. The text acts as a critique to chauvinism and rebuts the societies which suffocate the aspirations of woman folk. The text portrays the experience of women who undergo different types of suppression in the hands of patriarchy. The research paper has attempted to explore the elements of Feminism in Arundhati Roy's novel 'The God of Small Things'. The boundaries make a clear distinction of who the powerful are and who aren't, since only the former have the capability to prescribe who should stand where. The paper seeks to demarcate the establishments of power the novel discusses and how in close association are these establishments with the boundaries or the limits they dictate. Similarly, Velutha's relationship with Ammu was at the cost of his life. The indifference Ammu faces is mainly because of the fact that she is a woman, who is 'unworthy' of being educated.

The people in authority, be it the institutions of law, religion or education have formulated different laws for different people. The God of Small Things questions how certain people are relegated to the margins, and how crossing the prescribed limits take a heavy toll on their lives. It lays bare the double standards of the society, and the overt gap between preaching and practice. The novel discusses issues of sex, caste, religion etc. A strain of pessimism touches throughout the strands of the non-linear narration of the novel.

The Booker Prize winning The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is a highly political novel that revolves around the lives of the fraternal twins Estha and Rahel.

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