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SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THAT LONG SILENCE AND ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT

Shashi Deshpande and Arundhati Roy have raised the issues like gender discrimination, the oppression and exploitation of woman in a male-dominated and tradition-bound society, conflict between tradition and modernity, woman’s search for identity and human relationships in their novels. In That Long Silence, Deshpande suggests that woman should not succumb to the roles cast upon them. Woman should get rid of the fear on her part that allows the oppression to continue. It is not only man who subjugates woman. She is also responsible for her own predicament and should struggle to achieve her own identity. Adjustment should be made but not a servile one. On the other hand, The God of Small Things unveils a vast plethora of details concerning the problems plaguing woman in a male-dominated society. It vividly portrays the plight of woman in society and her endless struggle for carving an identity in this male-chauvinistic world. The novelist narrates the agony and affliction of a single, helpless mother (Ammu) in an apathetic world – a world where the age-old subjugation of woman still persists.

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