The Legacy of Female Rights in The God of Small Things andCracking India

Volume 2 Issue 1 Winter Edition 2022

Abstract

Aim: The present paper is an attempt to examine the rights and status of women with all the conflicts and contradictions in the novels. The God of Small Things and Cracking India by Arundhati Roy and Bapsi Sidhwa respectively. Roy stormed into the limelight with her debut novel The God of Small Things. Through this novel, Roy shows her real concern for women’s liberty and position as well as the structure of transformation. Like Roy, Bapsi Sidhwa also encounters women’s lives with outward silence and inward alertness in her novels. Through the novel Cracking India Sidhwa seeks to contribute to the process of change that has already started all over the world, involving are defining of women’s autonomy and situation. The paper will also focus on the assertiveness and equality of the female characters from a feminist perspective in the novels. Methodology and Approach: The study is based on primary sources i.e., select novels The God of Small Things and Cracking India by Arundhati Roy and Bapsi Sidhwa respectively. A descriptive qualitative approach and feminist point of view have been used as a method to analyze the characters, situations, and themes of the select novels. Some secondary sources like critical books on Arundhati Roy and Bapsi Sidhwa, articles in scholarly journals, interviews, and internet sources, etc. are also used for reaching a significant outcome. Outcome: Arundhati Roy’s novel presents the inner self and conversion of women in a male-dominated society. Roy is one of the most outstanding and extraordinary novelists in modern Indian English Literature who has put India on the map of the English-speaking world. Likewise, the picture of women in Sidhwa’s novels quivers our mentality to ponder over the true picture. She tries to present a world that is free from dominance and hierarchy and abounds with justice and equality.