Realism In Arundhati Roy’S The God Of Small Things : Social Realism In Arundhati Roy'S Novels

<p>Arundhati Roy depicts class antagonism and class exploitation in terms of caste and she cleverly makes a contrast between touchable and exploitation and oppression of the have nots by the upper classes. In fact <i>The God of Small Things</i> encompasses the poor the exploited and socially rejected people of the Kerala society: they are misfits outcastes factory workers and low caste people or untouchables.</p><p><i>The God of The Small Things</i> makes a scathing hit on the patriarchal nations of Kerala's Touchable society; the high caste Hindus and the high caste Syrian Christians. The oldest character in the novel Pappachi is a male chauvinist and wife beater who has trouble in coping with the humiliation of retirement.</p>