Patriarchal Domination in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Abstract

The Novelist portrays the experience of women who undergo different types of suppression in the hands of patriarchy. She struggles for her existence in the society in various roles against the male dominated patriarchal society. Feminism is often described as a struggle against all forms of patriarchal and sexiest oppression. It is a saga of women's eternal suffering in a patriarchal society. Ammu's rebellion against the patriarchy results in her own death when she is sent away after sleeping with Velutha.